Iran demands UN action after Israel steps up nuclear security
Iran wants the UN to force Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and bring its nuclear programme under supervision of the global atomic watchdog
London — Iran asked the UN to condemn what it described as Israeli nuclear threats against it on Thursday, while Israel said it was stepping up security around its atomic sites as a precaution against threats from Tehran and its regional allies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a visit to a secretive Israeli atomic reactor in August to warn the country's enemies that it has the means to destroy them, in what appeared to be a reference to its assumed nuclear arsenal. "The UN′s members should not turn a blind eye to these threats and must take firms actions to eliminate all Israeli nuclear weapons," Iran's ambassador to the UN, Gholamali Khoshrou said in letters to the UN secretary-general and the security council, was quoted as saying by Fars news agency. Khoshrou asked the UN to force Israel to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and bring its nuclear programme under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a UN atomic watchdog. The di...
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