Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized that “2,500 years ago, another Persian villain tried to destroy the Jewish people, and just as he failed then, so, too, will you fail today.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday issued a warning to the regime in Tehran ahead of Passover, the holiday that marks the Jewish people’s rescue from annihilation at the hands of Haman in ancient Persia.

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“On the eve of Purim, I would like to say to … Iran and its proxies in the Middle East that 2,500 years ago, another Persian villain tried to destroy the Jewish people, and just as he failed then, so, too, will you fail today,” Netanyahu said during the state memorial ceremony for early Zionist activist Joseph Trumpeldor and his comrades, who fell in the Battle of Tel Hai in the northern Galilee on March 1, 1920.

“We will not allow your extremist and aggressive regime to attain nuclear weapons,” continued Netanyahu, according to excerpts of his speech released by his office. “We have not made the journey of generations, of thousands of years, to return to the land of Israel in order to allow the delusional regime of the ayatollahs to end the story of the revival of the Jewish people.”

And, he continued, “we are not pinning our hopes on any agreement with an extremist regime such as yours.” Read more at JNS