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Iran: Israeli Nuclear Program Destabilizing Region

   VOA News  April 07, 2011
   A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern
   Israeli Negev desert, (File)

Photo: AFP

   A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern
   Israeli Negev desert, (File)

   Facing international pressures over his country's disputed nuclear
   program, Iran's envoy to the United Nations says that Israel's nuclear
   ambitions are endangering Middle East stability.

   Iran's state-run news agency IRNA reports that Mohammad Khaza'ie told
   the U.N. Disarmament Commission in New York Wednesday that Israel's
   non-membership in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty was adding
   uncertainty in the region.

   He also said Iran had been advocating for a nuclear-free region since
   1974, five years before the country's Islamic revolution.

   Israel has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons.

   Iran is under United Nations sanctions because of its
   uranium-enrichment activities. Tehran says its nuclear ambitions are
   peaceful.

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