When you hate Sunnis worse than you hate the Zionists, I guess. Iran is majority Shia, Hezbollah is Shia, and the Baathists in Iraq were Sunni. Shiites are hardly a unified bloc (especially when you get into Arab vs. Persian flavors of Shia Islam), but it makes sense that they'd stick by Iran. Israel was probably just trying to fan the flames and destabilize both the Iranian and Iraqi sides as much as they could get away with, or they figured that Iran would be the lesser threat after the smoke cleared.
Edit: Or when you don't know you're on the same side as the Zionists. The wiki article says that Israel only provided clandestine support to Iran.
Hezbollah and Israel on the same side is :chefs-kiss:
That's the part that gets me the most, i'm genuinely mystified as to how that happened can someone explain
When you hate Sunnis worse than you hate the Zionists, I guess. Iran is majority Shia, Hezbollah is Shia, and the Baathists in Iraq were Sunni. Shiites are hardly a unified bloc (especially when you get into Arab vs. Persian flavors of Shia Islam), but it makes sense that they'd stick by Iran. Israel was probably just trying to fan the flames and destabilize both the Iranian and Iraqi sides as much as they could get away with, or they figured that Iran would be the lesser threat after the smoke cleared.
Edit: Or when you don't know you're on the same side as the Zionists. The wiki article says that Israel only provided clandestine support to Iran.