For some in Iran, the West’s relentless punishment has weakened the revolutionary fires of 1979. But for countless others, they are being rekindled by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza.

The Israel lobby has prevented a warming of relations between the U.S. and Iran, even if it can’t prevent a return to the nuclear deal, John Ghazvinian writes in his superb new history. “Perhaps the most unfortunate effect of all this domestic [U.S.] political wrangling was that it destroyed any hope that the nuclear deal might become a building block to warmer relations between Iran and the United States.”