For 47 years, the Islamic regime in Iran has led crowds in chanting death to Israel, death to America, said Ambassador Danny Danon of Israel.

Axar.az, citing UN, reports that Israel's 19th Permanent Representative to the United Nations, ambassador Danny Danon made these statements.

“This is not the anger of a radical fringe,” he said. “It is State-sanctioned hatred.”

While the chants echoed, uranium was enriched, centrifuges spun, missiles were built and facilities were buried deep underground.

Today, alongside the United States, Israel acted to stop “an existential threat before it became irreversible", he stressed.

It acted out of necessity, he said, because the regime left no reasonable alternative. The joint efforts would continue as long as the threat remained. The regime has built nuclear weapons, in blatant disregard for international law, murdered its own citizens and crushed dissent, expanded missile arsenals and armed proxies across the region, and declared its intention to erase Israel from the map.

Diplomacy was exhausted, he said, stressing Iran was required to stop enriching uranium and to allow full inspections. “Iran did none of it,” he said.

"They were building the means to force an irreversible reality with our backs against the wall. That is not a future Israel will accept."