In an article named “Israel Is the Nuclear Threat, Not Iran” published in The Wall Street Journal, the Iranian mission to the UN responded to allegations against Iran.
“Contrary to the false assertions in the article, Iran's nuclear program is completely peaceful, and various reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency confirm that after extensive inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities there is no evidence of any military diversion,” said part of the article.
“The charges are nonsense,” the article said, adding that the purpose of the fake propaganda against Iran was to divert attention from the real threat of nuclear proliferation posed by the “expansionist” regime of Israel that continues to oppress the Palestinian people and expropriate their land in clear violation of international law.
The article described Israel as “the biggest terrorist and apartheid regime” that continues to violate Palestinian rights and “has clandestinely stockpiled nuclear weapons which menace the people of the Middle East.”
The article condemned Israel for rejecting international calls to join the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) and to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect its nuclear facilities.
In his article published in The Wall Street Journal on March 29, Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren accused Iran of being the “sponsor of terror in the world” and “a danger to pro-Western states.”
He accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons program and called for a “credible threat of military intervention” to stop Iran's nuclear program.
Unlike Israel, Iran is a signatory to the NPT and has been cooperating with the IAEA, which has confirmed Iran's non-diversion toward military purposes in its numerous reports.
Israel, which is widely believed to be among the world's biggest nuclear-armed powers, maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity over its nuclear work and continues to defy international calls to join the NPT.
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