The Iranian mission to the UN has rejected recent remarks by the Canadian foreign minister against Tehran’s nuclear energy program, describing Israel’s nuclear weapons as the one and only source of threat in the Middle East and beyond, Press TV reports.
In a speech at the UN General Assembly on October 1, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird claimed that a nuclear Iran posed the most significant threat to global peace and security.
In a statement read out at the UN General Assembly, the Iranian representative to the UN responded to the unfounded allegations made by the Canadian foreign minister.