Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated his warnings to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, who has been making public efforts to bridge the diplomatic gap between Iran and the United States.
“[K]eep your slut hands away from Obama, skank,” Netanyahu wrote in a tweet that was later deleted. This was followed by a group email to world leaders saying that Rouhani “sleeps around” and has contracted “every STD in the book of whoredom.”
In a speech delivered in Tokyo on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry responded to Netanyahu’s claims, saying that President Obama was going to take things slowly, and that no interactions with the Iranian president would be based on trust alone.
“President Obama has bluntly asked Rouhani to get tested,” Kerry said. “That’s how the United States enters into relationships.”
By Friday morning, Netanyahu had uploaded 19 formerly-private photos to his Facebook page of himself with Obama while the two men vacationed together in the Bahamas in 2011.