Iran calls for Israel's nuclear disarmament
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Iran nuclear deal can mark the beginning of nuclear disarmament across the world.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says now that his country has accepted strict curbs on its nuclear program, its time for Israel and the world's other nuclear powers to begin their disarmament.
Mr. Zarif argues that while non-nuclear-weapon states, like Iran, have walked the walk to conform with the non-proliferation regime, states possessing destructive weapons have hardly even talked the talk and rejected the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) and customary international law.

Today, in light of the Vienna deal, it is high time that the nuclear haves remedied the gap by adopting serious disarmament measures and reinforcing the non-proliferation regime, wrote Zarif.
Israel is widely believed to be the only owner of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, with about 80 warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists. Israeli officials, however, have never publicly confirmed the existence of their nuclear arsenal.
Riedel's piece goes on to say that Iran deal should be debated in the context of the balance of power in the Middle East. A comprehensive and thorough discussion of the balance of power should include Israels real strategic situation.

Zarifs Friday remarks does not single out Israel. In his note he called for the nuclear disarmament of all countries possessing weapons of mass destruction.
All five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council the US, Russia, China, the UK and France are armed with nuclear weapons.

And besides these countries, there are other nuclear-armed states which, like Israel, are not NPT signatories: India, Pakistan and North Korea. Israel, India and Pakistan have never been signatories of the Treaty, and North Korea withdrew from the treaty in 2003.

This should be moved to the joke threads!!