Foreign Ministry said to slam Iranian anti-Israel jibe in missive to UN

[Behind the Aegis]

Israel has decided to send a letter of protest to the United Nations Security Council, after the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday that Israel was a "cancerous germ" that would soon be destroyed by the "hands of Hezbollah," Army Radio reported.

Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted by the Fars News Agency as saying: "In the near future, we will witness the destruction of the cancerous germ of Israel by the powerful and competent hands of the Hezbollah combatants."

The Foreign Ministry has instructed Israel's delegation to the UN to write a missive saying that the comments call for the destruction of Israel and represent severe anti-Semitism and racism, Army Radio reported.

The letter is also expected to call on the UN to censure Iran over the comments.

Jafari made the comment in a letter to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, to offer condolences after the killing of senior guerrilla commander Imad Mughniyah in a car bomb last week in Damascus.

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