ISRAELI Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed an international agreement with Iran on Sunday, saying it has emboldened the regime in Tehran to become increasingly aggressive in the region.

He told Iran that it should “not test Israel’s resolve.”

According to the New York Post, Netanyahu told world leaders, defence officials and diplomats at the Munich Security Conference the agreement has “unleashed a dangerous Iranian tiger in our region and beyond.”

Mr Netanyahu, a longtime critic of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, likened it to the infamous 1938 “Munich Agreement” that Western powers signed with Adolf Hitler in an attempt to stave off war in Europe.

“The concessions to Hitler only emboldened the Nazi regime,” he said. “Rather than choosing a path that might have prevented war … those well-intentioned leaders made a wider war inevitable and far more costly.”

Declaring that Iran’s “brazenness hit new highs,” he held up a fragment of what he said was an Iranian drone shot down last week by Israel in Israeli airspace and challenged Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who was to speak later at the event.

“Mr. Zarif do you recognise this? You should, it’s yours,” Mr Netanyahu said. “You can take back with you a message to the tyrants of Tehran — do not test Israel’s resolve!”

Tehran has denied that the drone belonged to Iran.

Mr Netanyahu told the audience that destroying the drone was a demonstration of Israel’s resolve.

“Israel will not allow Iran’s regime to put a noose of terror around our neck,” he said. “We will act if necessary, not just against Iran’s proxies that are attacking us but against Iran itself.”

NETANYAHU CENSURES POLISH PRIME MINISTER OVER HOLOCAUST REMARKS

Mr Netanyahu has also told Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that his remarks on “Jewish perpetrators of the Holocaust” were unacceptable and unfounded.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today spoke by telephone with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki,” a statement from Mr Netanyahu’s office said.

“He told him that the remarks that were made were unacceptable and that there was no basis for comparing the actions of Poles during the Holocaust to those of Jews.”

Mr Morawiecki, who was also in Munich for a global security conference, was questioned by a journalist who told of his mother’s narrow escape from the Gestapo in Poland after learning that neighbours were planning to denounce them, and asked if recounting that would now be against the law in Poland.

“It’s not going to be punishable,” he replied. “Not going to be seen as criminal, to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukraine and German perpetrators.”

His comments fuelled an already seething diplomatic row with Israel sparked by a controversial law passed by Poland’s senate this month.

“Prime Minister Netanyahu pointed out that the goal of the Holocaust was to destroy the Jewish people and that all Jews were under sentence of death,” the Israeli statement said.

“He told his Polish counterpart that the distortion regarding Poland could not be corrected by means of another distortion.”

The two agreed that the countries would continue their dialogue on the matter and that to this end the teams would hopefully meet soon.