TEHRAN - Iran has denounced the “horrible” proposal put forward by a top Republican U.S. senator suggesting that Israel attack Gaza with nuclear bombs.

The comments were made by Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani in a post on X on Tuesday.

Senator Lindsey Graham compared the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Japan during World War II and stated that Israel should bomb Gaza “whatever” it seems appropriate.

The Republican from South Carolina said on Sunday that Israel would be justified in destroying the embattled Gaza Strip. More than 200,000 people were murdered when the U.S. launched atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

Graham also urged President Joe Biden to provide the occupying regime with more bombs.

“These horrible statements by an American senator in justifying and encouraging the use of nuclear bombs by the Zionist regime reflect the brutality of those who advocate war and disregard human rights and international resolutions,” Kanaani said.

The Iranian official said such statements are made by a senator whose country of origin has a history of using nuclear weapons while merely claiming to defend human rights.

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry urged the world community to reject such “demonic statements” in order to stop the genocide and humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. 

The Iranian official also demanded a firm international denunciation of the U.S. government’s ceaseless assistance to the Israeli regime. 

Graham made these comments a few days after Biden declared that he had stopped the shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and threatened to do so in the event that the regime attacked Rafah, the southernmost city of Gaza that is home to 1.5 million Palestinian refugees.

After the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas, carried out a historic operation on October 7 against the usurping regime in retribution for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinians, Israel has been committing untold atrocities since then.

So far Israel has murdered over 35,200 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority of them women and children.

Last year, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian called on the United Nations Security Council to immediately move to dismantle Israel’s nuclear weapons following dangerous remarks by an Israeli minister who called for nuking the Gaza Strip.

His demand came after Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu urged the Israeli government to drop a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas of the world with a population of 2.3 million. 

Speaking in an interview, Eliyahu claimed that there were “no non-combatants” in the besieged strip and that using a nuclear bomb on the Palestinian enclave was one of the possibilities.”

Amir Abdollahian said the remarks are indicative of Israel’s failure. 

“Israel's regime minister's statement to use atomic bomb shows the real defeat of the regime against the resistance,” the foreign minister said at the time.

The Iranian foreign minister added, “The UN Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency must take immediate and uninterrupted action to disarm this barbaric and apartheid regime. Tomorrow is late. Full responsibility for this genocide lies with the White House.”