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President Donald Trump made his most openly genocidal threat yet to Iran on Tuesday, threatening to “annihilate” the country and its 92 million people with “no hope of survival.”

In his opening address to the UN General Assembly in New York City, Trump asserted again that he is facing a choice on Iran about whether to make a deal “that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country.”

“Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?” Trump said in his UN speech.

Trump has repeatedly made genocidal threats against Iran, prompting calls for impeachment and war crimes inquiries. These arresting remarks are especially alarming considering that Trump felt emboldened to make them at the highest-level gathering of world leaders, under the flag of an organization created after World War II with the mission of preventing global atrocities.

Human rights experts have previously said that Trump’s threats to wipe out Iran are genocidal. The UN’s Genocide Convention defines genocide as acts carried out “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”

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