Disarmament without dealing with Israel’s nukes is meaningless: Iran diplomat
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says global efforts aimed at nuclear disarmament will be in vain without dealing with the Israeli regime’s nuclear arsenal.
Gharibabadi said in a Saturday post on his X account that keeping silent about Israel’s nuclear weapons has clearly challenged international efforts for disarmament.
“On the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, a clear question faces the international community: How can one speak of disarmament while ignoring the nuclear arsenal of the Zionist regime?!” he said in the Farsi-language post.
The diplomat said international peace and security, as an aspiration of nuclear disarmament campaigns, has been undermined by creating immunity for Israel, a “special regime” which he said has benefited from double standards.
The comments came days after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) double standards in dealing with nuclear weaponization programs.
Pezeshkian said at a United Nations General Assembly speech that it is an irony that IAEA inspectors have been stationed in Iran for years while it has been Israel that has developed nuclear weapons.
Iran is a member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, known as the NPT, and has accepted extensive IAEA inspections over the years.
The country has also committed itself to a religious decree that bans the development of nuclear weapons and has repeatedly denied accusations by Western countries that it is working to build nuclear bombs.
Israel has never been a member of the NPT and has always kept silent about reports suggesting it has an arsenal of around 300 nuclear bombs.
Israeli officials have on several occasions threatened to use nuclear bombs against Palestinians in Gaza since the regime began a destructive war against the territory in October 2023.
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