IRAN'S president-elect Hassan Rowhani has called Israel "an old wound that must be eliminated", the ISNA news agency reports, drawing a sharp response from Israel's prime minister.
"The Islamic world must show unity against the Zionist regime, since this regime is an old wound that has lain for years in its body and must be eliminated," Rowhani was quoted as saying on Friday.
Rowhani - who will be inaugurated at the weekend - spoke on the sidelines of al-Quds (Jerusalem Day), an annual event organised by the Iranian establishment on the last Friday of Ramadan, to express solidarity with the Palestinians and opposition to the Israelis.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the comments revealed the true face of Iran's president-elect, often considered a moderate reformer.
"Rowhani has shown his true colours sooner than expected," Netanyahu said in Jerusalem.
"This is what the man thinks and it is the action plan of the Iranian regime," he said.
"There is a new president, but the goal of the regime has not changed - to develop nuclear weapons to threaten Israel, the Middle East and peace and security in the entire world."
Netanyahu added that a state that threatens Israel with annihilation should be prevented from acquiring any weapons of mass destruction.
The non-recognition of Israel has been part of Iran's foreign policy doctrine since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and is therefore untouchable.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has on past occasions referred to Israel as a "cancerous tumour" to be "removed from the region". Outgoing president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently expressed similar sentiment.
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