Tasnim � Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is selling �bigoted� lies against Iran resorting to �fake history and falsifying Torah�.

�To sell bigoted lies against a nation which has saved Jews 3 times, Netanyahu resorting to fake history & falsifying Torah. Force of habit. Once again Benjamin Netanyahu not only distorts the realities of today, but also distorts 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 Jews three times in its history,� Zarif said in a message posted on his official Twitter account on Sunday.

The remarks by the Iranian minister came after Netanyahu, during a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, claimed that Iran had been trying to �destroy the Jewish people� for some 2,500 years.

Earlier on Sunday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said that Netanyahu had both misreported Iran�s pre-Islam history and inverted facts. �Apparently, neither he is acquainted with history, nor he has read the Torah,� said Larijani.