available to it. Moreover, if such aggression is penetrated, the United Nations will be obliged to repulse such an aggression towards its sovereign member". On 7 February 2010, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the destruction of Israel was assured. According to the Tehran Times, Khamenei told Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, "Israel is going downhill toward decline and fall and God willing its obliteration is certain". Khamenei went on to call Israel "a symbol of atrocity, viciousness, and ugliness," and said the West's "support for the Zionist regime is ineffective." Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad's chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, said that if Israel attacked Iran it would be destroyed within a week. On June 24, 2022, Iran claimed that Yair Lapid's allegations of an Iranian conspiracy to assassinate Israelis in Istanbul were "ridiculous" and intended to sour relations between Iran and Turkey. On July 15, 2022, the Iranian military cautioned Israel and the US not to use force against Iran, “The Americans and Zionists (Israel) know very well the price for using the word 'force against Iran," State media cited Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for the Iranian armed forces. See also Arab League–Iran relations 2021 Natanz incident History of the Jews in Iran International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust International Holocaust Cartoon Competition International recognition of Israel Iran–Israel proxy conflict Iranian Jews in Israel Israel–Saudi Arabia relations Persian Jews Tehran - Haifa - Tel Aviv Visa policy of Iran#Israel References Further reading External links Iran and Israel at the United States Institute of Peace Iran at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Israel Bilateral relations of Israel Jews and Judaism in Persia and Iran