MOSCOW: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed Israel would never let Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, as world powers sought a deal with Tehran in Geneva over its nuclear drive.

“I pledge Iran will not get a nuclear weapon,” Netanyahu, who has never ruled out military action against Tehran, said in a Hebrew-language speech to leaders of Russia’s Jewish community in Moscow. He did not elaborate.

Speaking on the second day of a visit to Moscow to campaign against an emerging world power deal with Iran, Netanyahu accused Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of echoing the lexicon of the Nazi Holocaust.

“Yesterday, Iran’s supreme leader, Khamenei, said ‘death to America, death to Israel’, he said that Jews are not human beings.”

“Sound familiar?” Netanyahu asked. “The Iranians deny our past and speak time afer time of their commitment to wipe the state of Israel off the map,” he added.

After talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Netanyahu insisted on the need for a “real” solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.