DOHA (Dispatches) – Qatar said all of the Zionist regime’s nuclear facilities should be made available for the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect.
Qatar called on the occupying regime to join the Middle Eastern Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to prevent the global spread of nuclear weapons and eliminate the threat of “nuclear war” in the region, Doha News reported.
Qatar’s Ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and International Organizations in Vienna Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri said the Zionist regime is the only possessor of nuclear arms that refuses to join the treaty which aims to free the Middle East of nuclear weapons as part of international resolutions to stabilize the area.
This means the Zionist regime is not subject to inspections or risks being sanctioned by the United Nations’ IAEA.
“Qatar strongly supports the rule of law in international relations, as a basic guarantee for creating a peaceful and stable international environment that enhances opportunities for sustainable development for all peoples,” Al Mansouri told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors.
He added that “the goal of nuclear disarmament in accordance with international agreements and United Nations resolutions is one of the means to uphold the rule of law in international relations”.
The official says Doha calls on the Zionist regime to cooperate with IAEA and open its nuclear facilities and atomic reactors to inspectors.
In a statement, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the official “urged the international community and its relevant institutions to support the goal of freeing the Middle East from nuclear weapons, and to take practical steps to achieve that goal, based on its legal and moral responsibility”.
In February, satellite images revealed that the Zionist regime — the sole possessor of nuclear arms in the Middle East — is conducting “significant” constructive activities at the highly-secretive Dimona nuclear facility in the Negev Desert.
Citing commercial satellite imagery of the facility, the International Panel on Fissile Material (IPFM), a group of independent nuclear experts from 17 countries, reported that “significant new construction” had been underway at the Dimona complex.
The construction site sits “in the immediate vicinity of the buildings that house the nuclear reactor and the reprocessing plant,” the report said.
The IPFM’s website said the construction had “expanded and appears to be actively underway with multiple construction vehicles present,” adding, however, that the purpose was not known.
It was unclear when the construction work began, but Pavel Podvig, a researcher with the program on science and global security at Princeton University, told The Guardian that the project had apparently been launched in late 2018 and 2019.
The Zionist regime has tightly withheld information about its nuclear weapons program, but the regime is estimated to be keeping at least 90 nuclear warheads in its arsenal, according to the non-profit organization Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
The warheads, FAS said, had been produced from plutonium obtained at the Dimona facility’s heavy water reactor.