A delegation of Iranian dissidents is visiting Israel this week, as tensions between Israel and the Islamic Republic continue to simmer in the wake of the June 12-day war.
During their five-day visit, the group will attend the Monday evening opening of an Iranian film festival being held in the Israeli border town of Sderot, and tour the sites of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.
The visit was organized by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
The members of the delegation—the third such group organized by the Foreign Ministry—are currently living in exile in Europe and the United States.
“The bond between our peoples is far deeper than the terror of the Ayatollahs,” tweeted Yacov Livne, the ministry’s senior deputy director general for public diplomacy.
A separate group of Iranian dissident researchers, led by a senior adviser to exiled Crown Prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi, visited Israel in September to promote regional cooperation and peace after the fall of the Islamic Republic.
The trip, which was organized by Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel, sought to lay the foundation for a future peace agreement between the two Middle Eastern countries, dubbed the “Cyrus Accords.”
