Iran Calls For Israeli Disarmament

Tehran, May 26, IRNA – Minister of Defense and Logistics of the Armed Frorces Major-General Hossein Dehqan said on Sunday that the Comprehensive Agreement between Iran and the western governments must include Israeli disarmament of the nuclear, chemical and microbial arms. According to the Defense Ministryˈs Media Department, the minister made the remarks in reaction to the US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagelˈs call for a probe on Iranˈs missile program after the nuclear deal. Dehqan said that Iranˈs missile capacity is defensive, conventional, deterrent and not negotiable. ˈIf an issue is due to be dealt with following the nuclear deal, it is total elimination of the Zionist regimeˈs nuclear, chemical and microbial weapons in a bid to create a nuclear-free Middle East as well as annihilation of the USˈ weapons of mass destruction should be placed on agenda,ˈ he said. The Zionist regime should always be worried about the deterrence power of the Islamic Republic of Iran, otherwise, the occupying regime would have brought the Middle East under its control through war and bloodshed. Dehqan further noted that it is a shame on the US which claims to be a superpower, when its defense secretary announces that the Israelis have allowed the US to find a way out of Iranˈs nuclear issue. ˈWe urge our countryˈs nuclear negotiators that in addition to the talks with G5+1, to focus their efforts on full nuclear, chemical and microbial disarmament of the Zionist regime, the biggest threat to the region and worldˈs security, as well as the disarmament of the United States,ˈ he said./end