Friday, September 27, 2013

Iran's President Calls On Israel To Join The Non-Nuclear Treaty

President Rouhani has called on Israel to join an international treaty, banning the spread of nuclear weapons

Iran President Says Israel Should Get Rid Of Its Nuclear Weapons To Create A 'Nuke-Free' Middle East Zone -- Daily Mail

* Hassan Rouhani has chided the Jewish state for not joining treaty
* Iran insists its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes only
* World powers fear it is enriching uranium to build warheads
* Leader is facing criticism at home for accepting the holocaust happened
* However Islamic news agency says remark was wrongly translated
* The father of former U.S. Marine held in Iran has begged for his release

Iran’s new president has called on Israel to join an international treaty banning the spread of nuclear weapons, chiding the Jewish state for being the only Middle East nation that has failed to do so.

The speech by President Hassan Rouhani came hours before a meeting that was to mark the highest-level direct contact in six years between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities.

'Almost four decades of international efforts to establish a nuclear weapon-free zone in the Middle East have regrettably failed,' Mr Rouhani told a United Nations meeting on nuclear disarmament on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

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More News On Iran's President Calling On Israel To Join The Non-Nuclear Treaty

Iran’s President Calls on Israel to Join Nuclear Treaty -- New York Times
Israel must declare nuclear bomb, Rouhani says -- Times of India/AFP
Iran's Rouhani Calls on Israel to Join Non-Nuclear Treaty -- Wall Street Journal
Iran's Rouhani Calls On Israel To Sign 1979 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty -- Huffington Post/AP

My Comment: The Israelis are not impressed .... but what is changing is that it appears that a significant number of Israelis are starting to agree with Rouhani's demand -- or, at least the part about Israel finally admitting that it has a nuclear arsenal.

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