A chillingly detailed guide to "the proper way of eliminating Israel" – tweeted out by Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – is threatening to throw nuclear talks with Tehran into chaos.
Khamenei posted the following on his Twitter account Sunday, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the disturbing plan proves Iran remains "unrepentant" and "unreformed" and that the West should be forewarned as it tries to come to a deal with Iran on its nuclear program by a Nov. 24 deadline, the Free Beacon reports.
"Don't rush into a deal that would let Iran rush to the bomb," he warned, Ynet News reports.
The Times of Israel reports that Netanyahu has ordered letters to be sent to foreign ministries in the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany to warn them against a deal.
"The leader of this country that is depicted by some as moderate, the Islamic State of Iran, has said in the last 48 hours: 1) that he calls for the annihilation of Israel — his words, not mine; 2) he gives nine ways and reasons of how and why Israel should be annihilated — his words, not mine," Netanyahu said, the Times of Israel reported.
"He's publicly calling for the annihilation of Israel as he is negotiating a nuclear deal with the P5+1 countries. This terrorist regime in Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear threshold power."
In the disturbing Twitter guide, Khamenei writes, "The only means of bringing Israeli crimes to an end is the elimination of this regime. And of course the elimination of Israel does not mean the massacre of the Jewish people in the region. The Islamic Republic has proposed a practical and logical mechanism for this to international communities."
He also accuses "the fake Zionist regime" of committing acts of "infanticide, homicide, violence, and iron fist while boasts about it blatantly." Israel's enemies must commit to "armed resistance" until Israel is eliminated, the ayatollah says.
"Up until the day when this homicidal and infanticidal regime is eliminated through a referendum, powerful confrontation and resolute and armed resistance is the cure of this ruinous regime," Khamenei writes. "The only means of confronting a regime which commits crimes beyond one's thought and imagination is a resolute and armed confrontation."
Khamenei also reiterates his call for the West Bank to be armed like Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu fumed, "There is no moderation in Iran. It is unrepentant, unreformed," the Free Beacon reports.
On Monday, Vice President Joe Biden assured Jewish leaders the United States would not sign a bad deal, the Times of Israel reports.
"Let me say to you clearly in the Bidenesque way: We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon — period," he told the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America, the Times of Israel reports.
"I would not put my 42-year reputation on the line were I not certain when I say we mean it."