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Iran: UN should condemn Israel's 'clandestine' nuclear weapons

By The Associated Press

Iran demanded Tuesday that the United Nations Security Council condemn what it said was Israel's clandestine development and possession of nuclear weapons.

Javad Zarif, Iran's ambassador to the UN, said in identical letters to the council and to the secretary-general that the Security Council should "condemn Israeli regime's clandestine development and possession of nuclear weapons, compel it to abandon nuclear weapons, [and] urge it to accede" to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Zarif said the Security Council should demand that all of Israel's nuclear facilities be subject to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and be placed under its safeguards program.

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"Should the Israeli regime fail to do so, the council must take resolute action under Chapter 7 of the Charter to ensure compliance," he said.

Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, which authorizes a range of measures from diplomatic and economic sanctions to military action.

Iran insists its own nuclear program is purely peaceful to develop nuclear energy, but the United States and many European nations believe Tehran's real aim in enriching uranium is to produce nuclear weapons.

The Security Council is currently debating a resolution that would impose sanctions on Iran for refusing to suspend its enrichment program.

Zarif said in the letters that the council's actions would show whether it was acting under the UN Charter or as "a tool" for a few permanent members who have encouraged Israel "to persist in its lawless behavior with impunity."

The statement may be in reference to the U.S., Israel's closest ally, which would almost certainly veto any council resolution on Israel's nuclear program.

Zarif said Israel was the only obstacle to establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East.

"Peace and stability cannot be achieved in the Middle East while the massive Israeli nuclear arsenal continues to threaten the region and beyond," he said.

Zarif said Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's recent comments in a German television interview constituted not only a public admission of the country's nuclear weapons but a public boast of how dangerous they are.

Israel has a long-standing policy of ambiguity on nuclear weapons, refusing to confirm or deny whether it has them. But in the German TV interview broadcast December 12, Olmert listed Israel among countries that possess nuclear weapons.

Israel's UN Mission had no immediate comment on Zarif's letters.

The Iranian ambassador insisted in the letters, obtained by the Associated Press, that Olmert's comments were a clear admission that Israel possessed nuclear weapons in violation of international law, the UN Charter, and numerous Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.

"Nuclear weapons in the hands of a regime with an unparalleled record of noncompliance with Security Council resolutions and a long and dark catalogue of crimes and atrocities such as occupation, aggression, militarism, state-terrorism, and crimes against humanity, poses a uniquely grave threat to regional as well as international peace and security," Zarif claimed.

He called on the council to fulfill its responsibility under the UN Charter "to address such a clear and serious threat to international peace and security.

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1.	Israel Has Unlimited Get Out Of Jail Free Cards	01:53	\|	Guy From NYC	20/12/06

2.	Honestly, who is really scared of Israel`s nukes	01:56	\|	Robert	20/12/06

3.	guy from nyc	02:20	\|	smit	20/12/06

4.	Handwriting Analysis of Iran`s NPT Signature Reveals Dubious ...	02:33	\|	Lavi	20/12/06

5.	Australians worries	02:38	\|	David King	20/12/06

6.	To #2: I`m scared. Israel is the only country that WILL use Nukes	02:46	\|	John from Canada	20/12/06

7.	give me a break	02:54	\|	vik	20/12/06

8.	#2 Robert, who makes a strange claim	02:59	\|	Johnboy	20/12/06

9.	Just another brick in the wall	03:03	\|	J Olsen	20/12/06

10.	Iran wants to turn the tables	03:07	\|	zionist forever	20/12/06

11.	BE SILENT	03:22	\|	Federico Glez	20/12/06

12.	D.KING.Where was the survey of worried Australians published?	03:29	\|	Peter SM	20/12/06

13.	#6 scared john	03:34	\|	SG	20/12/06

14.	David King	03:59	\|	George	20/12/06

15.	Re: Smit to Guy From NYC	04:22	\|	Guy From NYC	20/12/06

16.	Johnboy: The Patriot Missiles of Iraq War 1	04:30	\|	Guy From NYC	20/12/06

17.	John: Armchair Airhead or ME Expert?	04:47	\|	Lavi	20/12/06

18.	Who´s the world menace?	05:13	\|	Niva dos Santos	20/12/06

19.	Iran should actually be expelled from the UN having threatned....	05:20	\|	Nadav	20/12/06

20.	Thank you Mr. Olmert	05:36	\|	Simon	20/12/06

21.	Guy From NYC, of The "Seven Boroughs" (+Makkah +Madinah) !	05:38	\|	you shalt not lie !	20/12/06

22.	Re 2 But who is counting	05:41	\|	Alan	20/12/06

23.	#13 Response	05:42	\|	ballistic	20/12/06

24.	Re 15 The real culprit	05:49	\|	Alan	20/12/06

25.	Guy: Israel Only Planned A ConventionalMilitaryResponse To Saddam	05:56	\|	Lavi	20/12/06

26.	Re 6 Oversimplification	05:59	\|	Alan	20/12/06

27.	#16 - Guy`s selling Brooklyn bridge	06:03	\|	SG	20/12/06

28.	#8 - spirits talk to Johnboy	06:31	\|	SG	20/12/06

29.	#28 SG - Paranioa knows no limits among the zionists	08:17	\|	Johnboy	20/12/06

30.	UN May Not Do Anything For Iran Again!	08:33	\|	Yosemite Sam	20/12/06

31.	#2 Robert - so it`s a size issue?	08:42	\|	justiceseeker	20/12/06

32.	This guy is so delusional he thinks he has influence in the UN.	09:16	\|	Marwan مروان خوري	20/12/06

33.	Ahmadinejad cried when confronted with protesting students	10:04	\|	Cipora Julianna Kohn	20/12/06

34.	to jonhboy 29 - How we know a duck is a duck.	10:10	\|	mb	20/12/06

35.	28: Just because you`re paranoid, JB	10:11	\|	DAVid Teich	20/12/06

36.	Guy from NYC	10:22	\|	S.	20/12/06

37.	Simple mathematics	10:32	\|	Hannah	20/12/06

38.	To John from Canada n.6.	10:38	\|	David Nigel Braham	20/12/06

39.	And UN probably will...	10:48	\|	Paul Henzen	20/12/06

40.	The `lunacy` of verbal blame game	11:05	\|	TonyL	20/12/06

41.	#6 WRONG AND WRONG AGAIN THE USA HAS USED NUKES	11:12	\|	paul harris	20/12/06

42.	John from Canada	11:17	\|	Jasmine Murphy	20/12/06

43.	Iran	11:21	\|	edward	20/12/06

44.	Johnboy`s fairy tales	11:22	\|	Jasmine Murphy	20/12/06

45.	if it follows the previouys 58 YEARS ITS AGIVEN	11:24	\|	paul harris	20/12/06

46.	well put, Zarif	11:30	\|	Pssd Off American	20/12/06

47.	Telling it like it is.	11:40	\|	Sandra Cleaver	20/12/06

48.	Total logic by Nadav	11:53	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

49.	to 37 again - simple history	12:03	\|	mb	20/12/06

50.	Simple statistics hannah :)	12:07	\|	mb	20/12/06

51.	Israel`s nukes not dangerous.	12:08	\|	Neutered Observer	20/12/06

52.	#28 SG	12:11	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

53.	Why do you give this?	12:11	\|	From the Moon	20/12/06

54.	Simple science hanna- what your pals do?	12:12	\|	mb	20/12/06

55.	to hanna - The dogs bark but the caravan moves on"	12:14	\|	mb	20/12/06

56.	Sandra Cleaver #47	12:15	\|	TonyL	20/12/06

57.	To Chris Linthwaite #48	12:16	\|	Youhav	20/12/06

58.	#6 It was Iraq that attacked Iran	12:22	\|	Jens	20/12/06

59.	Stripping Israel of WMD`s is not enough	12:24	\|	Jens	20/12/06

60.	Chris Linthwaite, I ask that you please not misrepresent what I..	12:30	\|	Nadav	20/12/06

61.	#54 mb	12:37	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

62.	#57 Nothing liek a well thought out argument	12:47	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

63.	# 60 Nadav the champion of excuses......	13:16	\|	Swiss (Dino)	20/12/06

64.	mb #50	13:19	\|	Guess who	20/12/06

65.	to 58 - to you jews dont belong to world.	13:21	\|	mb	20/12/06

66.	Chris Linthwaite #61	13:25	\|	Guess who	20/12/06

67.	Chris Linthwaite #62	13:31	\|	TonyL	20/12/06

68.	Too 61 - Israel also helped france build their nuke.	13:37	\|	mb	20/12/06

69.	62 - There is no Equivalence	13:45	\|	Bruriah Sarah	20/12/06

70.	to 64 - I hope have more USA investiments	13:49	\|	mb	20/12/06

71.	Iran wants to destroy Israel	13:53	\|	Bruriah Sarah	20/12/06

72.	Chris Linthwaite #62 Addition	14:16	\|	TonyL	20/12/06

73.	#6, #8, #31 The Johns and justice seeker & 22	14:43	\|	Robert	20/12/06

74.	to 61 - iran´s master miscalculete the kidnapp in israel North	14:43	\|	mb	20/12/06

75.	But Who Will Hold Israel Accountable?	14:44	\|	yaakov sullivan	20/12/06

76.	#72 Tony L	14:55	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

77.	#68 mb	14:58	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

78.	To Whomever Thinks Iran wants to destroy Israel - reverse order	14:58	\|	Joanna	20/12/06

79.	Yes, Meishele, we do have a bomb	15:07	\|	norman ravitch	20/12/06

80.	UN Should Condemn Israel`s Clandestine Nuclear Weapons	15:11	\|	Joanna	20/12/06

81.	73 - Response	15:12	\|	Bruriah Sarah	20/12/06

82.	I am scared of Israel having nukes _agree with John	15:19	\|	Joanna	20/12/06

83.	Bruriah Sarah	15:36	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

84.	Joanna	15:45	\|	Yosemite Sam	20/12/06

85.	"crimes against humanity"	15:59	\|	christoph	20/12/06

86.	to 77 who is crying just now is presid of iran!	16:02	\|	mb	20/12/06

87.	Swiss(Dino)	16:14	\|	ODP	20/12/06

88.	to 77 - iran is crying now ... 2	16:17	\|	mb	20/12/06

89.	#87 joanna	16:19	\|	zionist forever	20/12/06

90.	to 79 - why your president act in 1962 against cuba missiles ?	16:26	\|	mb	20/12/06

91.	Iran and Israel	16:40	\|	William	20/12/06

92.	# 85 ODP	17:15	\|	Swiss (Dino)	20/12/06

93.	Nothing New	17:17	\|	Tyrone	20/12/06

94.	#82 JOANNA IM NOT SCARED BECAUSE ISRAEL HAS NUKES	17:24	\|	paul harris	20/12/06

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96.	i have to say to 91 instead of 89 - sorry pal.	17:36	\|	mb	20/12/06

97.	Clandestine Nuclear weapons	17:44	\|	Yellowbirdwoman	20/12/06

98.	MB	17:52	\|	William	20/12/06

99.	atomic war	17:58	\|	norman ravitch	20/12/06

100.	#90	18:14	\|	Chris Linthwaite	20/12/06

101.	#97 COULD YOU TRANSLATE THIS WOMAN INTO ENGLISH PLEASE	18:15	\|	paul harris	20/12/06

102.	to 98 - I say what I mean, irans dont!	18:18	\|	mb	20/12/06

103.	Iran invents laws	18:29	\|	Gee	20/12/06

104.	MB	18:33	\|	William	20/12/06

105.	Response	18:37	\|	Yellowbirdwoman	20/12/06

106.	to 100	18:38	\|	mb	20/12/06

107.	Gee	18:40	\|	William	20/12/06

108.	to 98- i say what i mean - iran no part 2	18:56	\|	mb	20/12/06

109.	#105 QUITE RIGHT YELLOWBIRD ISRAEL IS JEWISH LAND	19:05	\|	paul harris	20/12/06

110.	to william	19:06	\|	mb	20/12/06

111.	William #107	19:20	\|	Gee	20/12/06

112.	Israels Intentions	19:22	\|	ZDC	20/12/06

113.	here`s how to get approval for your nukes...	19:25	\|	tuairimiocht	20/12/06

114.	105 yellowbirdwoman...	19:39	\|	blue&whitejewman	20/12/06

115.	to william	19:47	\|	mb	20/12/06

116.	MB	19:56	\|	William	20/12/06

117.	83 -History of Hezbollah	20:09	\|	Bruriah Sarah	20/12/06

118.	83 - Iran is a Threat	20:11	\|	Bruriah Sarah	20/12/06

119.	103 Gee, you`re facts are wrong	20:38	\|	p	20/12/06

120.	to william - we are war with iran since komehini arrived.	20:52	\|	mb	20/12/06

121.	to william - end	21:04	\|	mb	20/12/06

122.	ISRAEL CAN`T HELP IT	21:07	\|	Maxwell	20/12/06

123.	#19 - Nadav	21:07	\|	Mollio UK	20/12/06

124.	p #119	21:10	\|	Gee	20/12/06

125.	God has commanded Israel to be nuclear	21:11	\|	Toronto`s Finest	20/12/06

126.	Israel`s intentions?	21:24	\|	Maxwell	20/12/06

127.	#125 - wow a real toronto blessing	21:56	\|	mollio uk	20/12/06

128.	#6, virtually every single statement is false...	22:06	\|	Danny - Israeli one	20/12/06

129.	to maxell	22:06	\|	mb	20/12/06

130.	To maxell 122	22:44	\|	mb	20/12/06

131.	to maxell - the lesson that uk teach us	23:34	\|	mb	20/12/06

132.	Iran: UN should condemn Israel`s `clandestine` nuclear weapons	00:11	\|	n_erber	21/12/06

133.	#30 NONSENSE	00:39	\|	ballistic	21/12/06

134.	#41 YES THEY HAVE AND	00:41	\|	ballistic	21/12/06

135.	#45 EVERY RES IS IGNORED BY ISRAEL	00:45	\|	ballistic	21/12/06

136.	#65 DIFFERENT DAY WITH IRAN	00:56	\|	ballistic	21/12/06

137.	The thief is crying to scare the house master...	00:59	\|	Hastaroth	21/12/06

138.	Answer to re 2 but who is wining	03:27	\|	Khaled al Mazawi	21/12/06

139.	Bibi when you go bring the soldier who killed the 14yo girl	03:29	\|	Guy From NYC	21/12/06

140.	Honestly, who is really scared of Israel`s nukes?	03:53	\|	Mark Lincoln	21/12/06

141.	to 136 - anti gravitational part 2	04:39	\|	mb	21/12/06

142.	#136 - ballistic checks	07:12	\|	SG	21/12/06

143.	Nuclear Middle East	07:21	\|	Adel	21/12/06

144.	#132 n_erber`s simple mind	09:19	\|	Hastaroth	21/12/06

145.	140: Mark`s usual illogic	11:06	\|	David Teich	21/12/06

146.	now I ask you...	17:04	\|	edgar	24/01/08

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