"We have no war with the Iranian nation. On the contrary, there are warm relations between the nations. In Israel there is a big, proud community of Iranian Jews. But the question of Iran's regime is for us an existential question.
"We're not in 1939, but hundreds of military trucks are on Israel's border and thousands of missiles are pointed at the heart of Israel.
"I call on Germany's leadership to place Hezbollah outside of the law."