Only three weeks after a deal was reached between the world powers and Iran that will lift international sanctions in exchange for some restrictions on and monitoring of its declared nuclear program, which Iran largely developed in secret, in a new published book, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outlines a ‘’slow and painful’’ strategy to annihilate the State of Israel.

He claims that his plan would promote "the hegemony of Iran" while removing "the West's hegemony" from the Middle East.

Iranian leaders regularly and openly call for the destruction of Israel. Iran has intercontinental missiles apparently capable of striking Israel, and past intelligence has indicated that Iran had researched fitting one of those missiles with a nuclear warhead.

In this 416-page book edited by Saeed Solh-Mirzai, entitled “Palestine,” Khamenei recommends rather than wiping Israel off the map through conventional warfare a plan of terrorism and everlasting chain of low-intensity attacks that will ultimately make life unbearable for Israelis, who would largely respond, Iran’s Supreme Leader hypothesizes, by packing their bags and relocating themselves out of the country.

His calculation is based on the assumption that large numbers of Israelis have dual-nationality and would prefer emigration to the United States or Europe to daily threats of death. Khamenei also argues that if Jews would begin to leave Israel as a result of sustained and growing threats, the U.S. may withdraw its support for the Jewish State.

Khamenei makes his position clear from the start : Israel has no right to exist as a state. He uses three words : one is ‘’nabudi’’ which means ‘’annihilation’’, the other is ‘’imha’’ which means ‘’fading out’’ and finally there is ‘’zaval’’ meaning ‘’effacement.’’

He claims his strategy for the destruction of Israel is not based on anti-Semitism, which he describes as a European phenomenon, but rather on ‘’well-established Islamic principles.’’

He describes Israel as ‘’a cancerous tumor’’ whose elimination would mean that ‘’the West’s hegemony and threats will be discredited’’ in the Middle East. In its place, he writes, ‘’the hegemony of Iran will be promoted.’’

Ultimately, the international community would address the conflict whereby some mechanism would be implemented that transforms the “cancerous tumor” of Israel and, ostensibly, the Palestinian controlled territories into another single entity under Muslim rule where the Jews who cannot prove “genuine roots” in their old home country would have to leave and the rest would have to remain as a “protected minority” in the new state of Palestine.

The supreme leader’s top three reasons for wanting to destroy the Jewish state include: its occupation of Jerusalem, its unflagging belligerence against Muslims and its intimate relationship with the “Great Satan,” the United States.

Khamenei counts on what he sees as ‘’Israel fatigue’’. The international community would start looking for what he calls ‘’a practical and logical mechanism’’ to end the old conflict. He excludes the two-state formula, which is supported by Europe, in any form. ‘’The solution is a one-state formula,’’ he declares. The state to be called Palestine, would be under Muslim rule but would allow non-Muslims, including ‘’some Israeli Jews’’ who could prove ‘’genuine roots’’ in the region, to stay as ‘’protected minorities.’’

Khamenei’s book also deals with the Holocaust, which he regards either as ‘’a propaganda ploy’’ or a disputed claim. ‘’If there was such a thing,’’ he writes, ‘’we don’t know why it happened and how.’’

Khamenei has been in contact with professional Holocaust deniers since the 1990s. In 2000, he invited Swiss Holocaust-denier Jürgen Graf to Tehran and received him in private audiences. French Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy, a Stalinist who converted to Islam, was also feted in Tehran as ‘’Europe’s greatest living philosopher.’’