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According to the Bible, Israel will be the center of world attention in the last days. However, Israel will be hated by the world and blamed for unrest, especially by countries like Iran. There is no question that Iran has an agenda to develop weapons that would have the potential to wipe out Israel. For years they have openly claimed this is exactly what they want to do.

Article: Israel And The Last Days

Iran said Thursday that Israel's atomic arsenal is the biggest danger to world peace, a day after US President Donald Trump vowed to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Israel is the "biggest threat to the peace and security in the region and the world," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said, quoted by state news agency IRNA.

Trump had warned Wednesday after meeting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington that the "threat of Iran's nuclear ambitions" was one of the major security challenges facing Israel. The US president told reporters that he would do "more to prevent Iran from ever developing -- I mean ever -- a nuclear weapon"

But Ghasemi dismissed Trump and Netanyahu's comments as "nonsense". "The bitter truth is that these unjust claims are being repeated by the Zionist regime that doesn't abide by any international laws and has hundreds of warheads in its atomic arsenal," Ghasemi said, referring to Israel. Ghasemi said the United Nations' atomic watchdog had repeatedly confirmed the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program.

Under Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, the US and five other world powers reached a 2015 deal with Iran to lift sanctions in return for curbs on its nuclear program.

Trump himself has repeatedly denounced the accord as "one of the worst deals I've ever seen". The Islamic republic's arch-foe Netanyahu has warned that the deal will expire too soon to permanently remove the threat.