A senior Iranian military official threatened to destroy Israel as part of an escalating war of words between the Jewish State and the Islamic Republic.
According to Ali Shirazi, who serves as the liaison between Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian military's Quds Force, "Iran has the capability to destroy Israel and given the excuse, Tel Aviv and Haifa will be razed to the ground".
"Iran is not Syria," added Shirazi. "If Israel wants to survive a few more days, it has to stop this childish game."
Shirazi's threats come as tensions rise between Israel and Iran following an alleged Israeli attack on the Syrian military’s T-4 airbase earlier this week.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the country's conflict, said 14 fighters were killed, including Syrian army officers and Iranian forces.
Iran has long been a strong supporter of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and has been providing him with both financial aid and military advisors against a range of opposing forces.
The airstrike came just days after a sarin nerve gas attack in the city of Douma, east of Damascus, that killed dozens of civilians.
On Wednesday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu used his official address at the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes' Remembrance Day ceremony to warn Iran "not to test Israel's determination to protect itself".
"Even today, an extreme regime threatens us, threatens the peace of the entire world - this regime explicitly declares that it intends to destroy us, the Jewish state," said Netanyahu. "There are those who delude themselves, as in Munich in 1938, that the agreement with the Iranian regime will stop its aggression."