Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday accused Iran of planning another "Holocaust," as the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"Holocaust denial is continued energetically by a central state in the world," he told his cabinet in Jerusalem.
"Not by groups. Not by single individuals. Not by marginal elements. But by Iran, whose leaders on a daily basis and at the United Nations and any other platform deny that the Holocaust occurred, while at the same time they prepare what they believe will be an additional Holocaust: The destruction of the Jewish state."
Israel, he said, would not make the mistake of underestimating the threat and his government's first and foremost mission remained to prevent Tehran from becoming a nuclear power.
The day of remembrance marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation by the advancing Red Army of the survivors of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi death camp.