Israel: Iran seeks death, destruction

Israel's president Shimon Peres

Israel once again points the finger at Iran, saying Tehran would not need long-range missiles if it weren't seeking nuclear armament.

"Why are they building long-range missiles, which are extremely expensive? In those missiles you put in only wars (warheads) that have the capacity of mass destruction, otherwise it doesn't make sense," Israeli president Shimon Peres asked UN envoy to the Mideast Robert Serry in a Thursday meeting.

"They build the missiles of all ranges: short range, medium range, 1,500 kilometers range - what for?," he continued.

This is while the Zionist regime, itself, bars inspections of its nuclear facilities and is widely believed to have over 200 nuclear warheads in its arsenal.

Israel calls its approach of neither denying nor admitting that it has nuclear weapons 'strategic ambiguity'.

Iran, however, is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty and allows the UN nuclear watchdog to conduct inspections of its nuclear program.