Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday called the Islamic Republic "a threat to the fate and the existence, not just of our own future, but the fate and the future of all mankind."
"This will be the outcome if it achieves nuclear arms. The battle between us and the empire of terror in Iran will determine the fate of all free societies," he said in a speech at the start of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"We will prevent Iran from achieving nuclear weapons. We will fight the zealot regimes threatening the entire world. We shall fight forcefully against those regimes threatening the whole world," the Israeli prime minister said.
Netanyahu said if Israel "loses this war, the Western countries are next in turn. The wave of zealots will wash upon all of them, and it will happen much more quickly than they think."