IRNA - Foreign News Editor of Isreali newspaper Haaretz, Asaf Ronel, in a twitter message said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif knows Jewish history better than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.


Ronel made the remarks in reaction to Netanyahu's recent baseless anti- Iranian remarks. Netanyahu had said Iranians made an effort to annihilate the Jews 2,500 years ago.

�When the Iranian foreign minister knows Jewish history better than the prime minister of the Jewish State,� the message reads.

In a twitter message on Sunday evening, Zarif said, �To sell bigoted lies against a nation which has saved Jews 3 times, Netanyahu resorting to fake history & falsifying Torah. Force of habit.�

In an attachment to the post, Zarif wrote �Once again Benjamin Netanyahu not only distorts the realities of today, but also of the past � including Jewish scripture. It is truly regrettable that bigotry gets to the point of making allegations against an entire nation which has saved the Jews three times in its history.�

�The Book of Esther tells of how Xerxes I saved Jews from a plot hatched by Haman the Agagite, which is marked on this very day; again, during the time of Cyrus the Great, an Iranian king saved the Jews � this time from captivity in Babylon; and during the Second World War, when Jews were being slaughtered in Europe, Iran gladly took them in,� Iranian foreign minister wrote.