"Threats by Iran to obliterate Israel have been played down by Germany, prompting the Trump administration's highest-profile ambassador to criticize Chancellor Angela Merkel government's attitude towards Tehran.
'Threatening the destruction of Israel is something that should not be dismissed, especially when the threats come from Iranian regime officials who regularly use terrorism as a weapon of intimidation. When someone shows you who they are, believe them,' Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, told Fox News Tuesday.
Mojtaba Zonnour, chairman of National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in Iran's Majlis legislature, said in October: 'If Israel or America make a mistake, Israel won't live for longer than 20 or 30 minutes.'...
The German Chancellery, the agency through which Chancellor Angela runs her government, in response to numerous requests for comment, would go no further than to label them 'anti-Israel statements'..."