Tehran 0
27 September 2018

Responding to Prime Minister Netanyahu's presentation at the UN General Assembly, Iran's foreign minister, Javad Zarif, declared that "no arts and crafts show will ever obfuscate that Israel is the only regime in our region with a secret and undeclared nuclear weapons program - including an actual atomic arsenal". It is "time for Israel to fess up and open its illegal nuclear weapons program to international inspectors", Zarif argued. Referring to Netanyahu's claims regarding a purported atomic warehouse, a senior Iranian diplomat opined that "some people have pulled a prank on Netanyahu". The foreign ministry's spokesperson likewise rejected the Israeli claims. 

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