The Tel Aviv municipality this week drew attention to a lesser-known fact when it quizzed Facebook followers on the identity of the owners of a small plot of land near the city’s center, which currently hosts a public playground, a few benches and a few patches of grass.

The surprise answer: Iran.

No, the Islamic Republic devoted to Israel’s destruction has not suddenly taken an interest in lucrative real estate options in the coastal city. Rather, the tiny park on the corner of Yalin and Remez streets, right by Kikar HaMedina, was purchased by Iran in the 1970s, prior to the Islamic Revolution.

At that time, under the reign of the Shah, Israel and Iran had strong diplomatic relations, and Tehran bought the land in question to eventually build an Iranian embassy there.

This, of course, did not come to pass, with the 1979 fall of the monarchy and the establishment of the intensely hostile Ayatollah regime.

Following the revolution, the........

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