RIYADH: Saudi Arabia called on Iran to fully comply with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguard agreements under the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Only the IAEA safeguards regime can sufficiently verify Iran’s nuclear commitments,” Prince Abdullah bin Khaled bin Sultan, the Kingdom’s representative to the agency, said.
Iran has repeatedly lacked transparency and procrastinated in cooperating with the IAEA and “the world at large lacks the necessary assurances regarding its nuclear program,” he added.
“Iran’s nuclear blackmail must be stopped.”
The IAEA’s Board of Governors has serious concern over Iran’s continued flouting of the agency’s safeguards, Prince Abdullah said.
He said that Tehran continues to transfer nuclear materials to undeclared locations and repeatedly fails to respond to the IAEA’s questions with credible answers.
“Unless its belligerent intentions are firmly contained, Tehran’s recklessness risks proliferation in the region, leading to global instability. The entire safeguards system is at stake. Only firm positions taken by the Board of Governors can save it,” the envoy said.
Also on Wednesday, the UN nuclear watchdog slammed as “unacceptable” incidents involving its inspectors in Iran following a news report that Iranian guards had harassed female agency staff.
“The agency immediately and firmly raised this issue with Iran to explain in very clear and unequivocal terms that such security-related incidents involving agency staff are unacceptable and must not happen again,” the IAEA said.
Saudi Arabia calls on Iran to fully comply with IAEA
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Saudi Arabia calls on Iran to fully comply with IAEA
- “Iran’s nuclear blackmail must be stopped”: Prince Abdullah bin Khaled bin Sultan
- He said that Tehran continues to transfer nuclear materials to undeclared locations
Israeli FM urges Jews to move to Israel a week after Sydney attack
- “Today I call on Jews in England, Jews in France, Jews in Australia, Jews in Canada, Jews in Belgium: come to the Land of Israel! Come home!” Saar said
JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar called on Sunday for Jews in Western countries to move to Israel to escape rising antisemitism, one week after 15 were shot dead at a Jewish event in Sydney.
“Jews have the right to live in safety everywhere. But we see and fully understand what is happening, and we have a certain historical experience. Today, Jews are being hunted across the world,” Saar said at a public candle lighting marking the last day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
“Today I call on Jews in England, Jews in France, Jews in Australia, Jews in Canada, Jews in Belgium: come to the Land of Israel! Come home!” Saar said at the ceremony, held with leaders of Jewish communities and organizations worldwide.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Israeli leaders have repeatedly denounced a surge in antisemitism in Western countries and accused their governments of failing to curb it.
Australian authorities have said the December 14 attack on a Hanukkah event on Sydney’s Bondi Beach was inspired by the ideology of the Islamic State jihadist group.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Western governments to better protect their Jewish citizens.
“I demand that Western governments do what is necessary to fight antisemitism and provide the required safety and security for Jewish communities worldwide,” Netanyahu said in a video address.
In October, Saar accused British authorities of failing to take action to curb a “toxic wave of antisemitism” following an attack outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, in which two people were killed and four wounded.
According to Israel’s 1950 “Law of Return,” any Jewish person in the world is entitled to settle in Israel (a process known in Hebrew as aliyah, or “ascent“) and acquire Israeli citizenship. The law also applies to individuals who have at least one Jewish grandparent.zz
