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Turki said establishing a nuclear weapons-free zone “deserves everybody’s attention and energy, more so than other activities which we see unfolding, whether it is redeployment of fleets in the area, whether Iranian or American or British or French, whether it is the sanctions efforts against Iran.”

The former Saudi intelligence chief was referring not just to Iran – on whom the Security Council has already imposed sanctions for its nuclear program – but also to Israel, the only state in the region that possesses nuclear weapons, although they refuse to confirm or deny the fact.