Iran’s Minister of Defense Amir Hatami has warned that Tehran will raze Haifa and Tel Aviv, if Israel launches any aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“The Zionist regime knows — and if it doesn’t, it should now — that if it makes a mistake, the Islamic Republic will raze down Tel Aviv and Haifa,” Hatami said, Tasnim reports.

According to him, Tehran recommends that the Israelis don’t make verbal threats “since they can’t turn them into a reality”.

Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz said last week that Israel "will never allow Iran to become nuclear capable or anywhere close to it," during an interview with Fox News Radio. “If the world stops them before, it’s very much good. But if not, we must stand independently,” he added. “And we must defend ourselves by ourselves.”