I was in Tel Aviv in 2015 for work. A short trip, memorable for:
- encountering nice people
- walking around the streets without an overt police or military presence
- a friendly but very sharp member of the border force scrutinising my passport and asking all sorts of probing questions about...
The religious zealotry will never be removed from Iranian society, but stricter and tighter enforcement of economic sanctions by the West would be a small step in the right direction.