Israel tells UN's ElBaradei Iran wants nuclear arms

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Mohammed ElBaradei meets with Israeli atomic energy commission director in Tel Aviv, says Arab countries feel there is a double standard.

Israel, pressed to consider a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, stressed its fear that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons and might use them against it, the visiting head of the UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday.
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ElBaradei is on a three-day visit to Israel, which refuses to admit or deny having nuclear weapons under a policy of "strategic ambiguity." International experts believe it has 100-200 warheads, based on estimates of the amount of plutonium its reactors have produced.

ElBaradei said his attempts to promote the idea of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East ran up against Israeli concern about Iran's nuclear ambitions and about the hostility to Israel of some states in the region.

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