Iran reiterates call for global nuclear disarmament

Iran renewed the call for the total elimination of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) across the world, saying the international community must work to prevent terror groups from obtaining such banned arms, Iran Daily reported.

Addressing the UN Security Council on Tuesday on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Iran’s UN Ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo expressed concerns over the slow pace of denuclearization and a lack of progress in the dismantling of WMDs, Press TV reported.

Khoshroo, whose country holds the rotating presidency of NAM, described nuclear disarmament as the movement’s "absolute priority,” demanding that the concept of using nukes or threatening to use them be omitted from international military doctrines.

The Iranian diplomat warned against the access of terror groups to internationally-banned weapons, calling for cooperation among world countries to prevent the terrorists from acquiring such arms.

"NAM welcomes the establishment of zones free from nuclear weapons across the world and calls on all countries that are in possession of such weapons to unconditionally” join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), said Khoshroo.