Tehran says Israel’s nuclear weapons are the biggest threat to peace and security in West Asia and the world.

On Tuesday, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN office in Geneva remarked during a UN Review conference on the treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, also known as NPT.

Ali Bahreini said the growing Israeli threat arises from double standards by the US and the West in supporting the regime’s nuclear arms program.

He described the existence of the Israeli regime’s nuclear weapons program as the most important factor preventing the formation of a nuclear-weapon-free Middle East and stated, “The nuclear weapons of this regime are a danger to Peace and security of the region and the world.”

He criticized the double standards by some nuclear countries, especially the United States and its Western allies, and their support for the regime’s nuclear weapons program.

Bahreini also slammed Washington’s unilateralism as the main obstacle to the full implementation of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which threatens the future of the treaty and its ultimate goal of creating a world free of nuclear arms.  

“As long as these nuclear policies and programs of nuclear weapons countries continue and more countries, especially under the NATO nuclear umbrella, rely more and more on nuclear weapons, there will be no progress in nuclear disarmament in the world,” he said.

“It is expected that we will see the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its dimensions,” he said.

Bahraini emphasized the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, adding that Tehran was committed to the NPT goals.

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