Not if they refuse to acknowledge the cultural roots of the festivities they celebrate. In fact, they outright deny it.
Their denials won't change historic facts. I was referring to those facts, exclusively. Is this to suggest their fabrications affect and alter historic reality? I'm under no delusions as to what their policies consist of.
Israeli hostility to Iran solely dependents on Tehran's strategic posture. The day that Iran gives hints of pro-Israeli sentiment, is the day that Tel Aviv would immediately prioritize Tehran over every other country in the Middle East. They would be willing to drop the likes of Saudi instantly if that would bring them into Iran's favour.
Saudi Arabia is a vassal regime deprived of genuine sovereignty. That's the only sort of a regime Tel Aviv will show itself favorable towards. And even the Saudis themselves are slated for dismantling (see Oded Yinon plan, Ralph Peters map, etc), but at a later point in time, since for now they are useful to Tel Aviv in its attempts to destroy Iran.
Prevailing conditions under the shah regime, when Isra"el"i and pro-zionist networks (Zeytoun, Haifan Bahai organization, freemasonry, SAVAK networks loyal to Tel Aviv such as Parviz Sabeti's stay-behind structure) had effectively undermined Iranian sovereignty, are characteristic of what "friendship" with neighboring nations entails in the eyes of Tel Aviv, and it's everything but a relationship on equal footing.
Heck, even western allies of Isra"el" end up under the zionist thumb. Read Mearsheimer and Walt's (no "conspiracy theorists" but respected academic scholars) "The Israel Lobby" to get a notion of how zionist encroachment has led to a situation where US policy in the Middle East is no longer dictated by America's own interests. The same can be witnessed all over Europe.
Zionist hostility and propensity for domineering is not a consequence of the IR's policies. That's what Isra"el"i officials would like people to believe. It runs far, far deeper than that and is of a civilizational, existential type. We're talking about a regime and a ruling oligarchy with a particular mindset, which is staunchly pursuing a messianist agenda of global domination, tolerates no roadblocks on the path to the realization of its goals, and tends to view every sort of engagement in strict zero sum terms.
This is no ordinary kind of enmity:
At the heart of the conflict between Iran and Israel lies no cultural enmity, in contrast to Azerbaijan. That alone makes the latter a more significant threat to Iran's territorial integrity than Israel will ever be.
I would suggest to gather additional information on zionist globalism. Globalist zionist elites are definitely hostile to every historical tradition, to every civilization with ancestral roots. The projected messianist one-world government they seek to implement, is synonymous not just with the end of nation-states, of national identity, of territorial integrity, but also with traditional cultural specificity and diversity.
The intent is to gobble up, subsume and dilute all cultures (except one) into a unified, undifferentiated universal synthesis.
Simply put,
there's no room for any sort of Iranian culture in the zionist project.
What we can witness here on the religious level, also applies on the political, cultural and economic levels:
Historic project dubbed the “Abrahamic Family House” to be completed by 2022
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Besides, as said, Isra"el" is the one empowering Baku. Isra"el" is not just backing all sorts of anti-Iranian separatisms, it is outright engineering these currents through its US-based, pro-zionist think tanks. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if some of those anti-Iranian cultural policies conducted by Baku were initially coined in Tel Aviv, or if Aliyev was being assisted by zionist consultants in these endeavours. Zionist efforts to uproot and destroy Iranian society in an irreversible manner are all too apparent.
This is not simply done because Iran "decided" to antagonize Tel Aviv out of the blue, for at the core of the Islamic Republic's hostility towards Tel Aviv resides the zionist treatment of Iran prior to 1979. Now had the pre-revolutionary experience been an "accident of history", it would be a different matter. Problem is that this domineering behaviour is a recurrent pattern displayed by zionist elites accross the board. It betrays a political project defined by hegemonist designs, and those who delve into the topic will find enough evidence in support of this.
We saw how Iraq was obliterated for good in what was essentially a zionist-concocted war of aggression. After 1991, Saddam no longer represented an objective threat to Tel Aviv whatsoever. Hence the true motives underlying Iraq's destruction can't be explained away by invoking things like Saddam's strategic posture against Isra"el". The truth is that Tel Aviv has an agenda of wrecking nation-states in the region.
Speaking of cultural issues, the celebration of the supposed mass slaughter of 75.000 Iranians on Purim, including of entire Iranian tribes that were wiped out of existence, doesn't strike me as a sign of positive cultural-historic bonds.
I completely sympathize with calls to counter the pan-Turkist threat. Much less so, I'm afraid, with apologetic stances towards Isra"el", in the absence of which Iran would hardly be facing threats so intense from totally insignificant (on their own) second- and third-tier players to begin with. No powers on earth are more dangerous to Iran, whether in the short or in the long term, than international zionism and Isra"el".