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<\/a>Standing next to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor earlier in the week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to \u201cwipe out\u201d his enemies. In a speech that many will see as the Jewish state breaking its long silence over the possession of nuclear weapons, the Likud leader warned that it has the means to destroy its enemies.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThose who threaten to wipe us out put themselves in a similar danger, and in any event will not achieve their goal,\u201d he said on Wednesday during a ceremony to rename the complex, near the desert town of Dimona. The site has long been suspected to be the location where Israel has been developing nuclear weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n Iran hit back by describing Netanyahu as a \u201cwarmonger\u201d. \u00a0The threat of \u201catomic annihilation\u201d against the Islamic Republic was denounced as \u201cbeyond shameless in the gall\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIran, a country without nuclear weapons, is threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory,\u201d Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote on his official Twitter account.<\/span><\/p>\n Iran, a country without nuclear weapons, is threatened with atomic annihilation by a warmonger standing next to an actual nuclear weapons factory. Beyond shameless in the gall. pic.twitter.com\/MBoFac8Bvv<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 Javad Zarif (@JZarif) August 29, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Zarif also commented<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Israel\u2019s nuclear programme saying: \u201cAs the world marks Int\u2019l Day against Nuclear Tests, let\u2019s remember that only nuclear bombs in our region belong to Israel and the US; the former a habitual aggressor & the latter the sole user of nukes. Let\u2019s also remember that Iran has called for Nuclear Weapon Free Zone since 1974.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Israel has never acknowledged possessing nuclear weapons, instead maintaining a policy of \u201cstrategic ambiguity\u201d. Foreign reports have put the size of Israel\u2019s nuclear arsenal in the dozens to hundreds of weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n Earlier this month a science journal published<\/a><\/strong><\/span> by Princeton University\u2019s Science and Global Security journal claimed that Israel conducted an illegal nuclear test in contravention of international law.<\/span><\/p>\n Netanyahu\u2019s remarks came as Israel lobbies world powers to follow the US<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in exiting a 2015 international deal with Iran that capped the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n