The Zionist entity denounced on Thursday the call of Islamic Republic to acknowledge its nuclear weapons, accusing new Iranian President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani of diverting attention from the regime’s own nuclear work.

The Zionist entity denounced on Thursday the call of Islamic Republic to acknowledge its nuclear weapons, accusing new Iranian President Sheikh Hasan Rouhani of diverting attention from the regime's own nuclear work.

Rouhani, who is attending the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, called in his UN speech for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and urged the enemy entity to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Yuval Steinitz, the head of the Zionist delegation at the UN General Assembly, accused Sheikh Rouhani was trying "to smile his way to the bomb."

"The man is an expert with tricks," Steinitz, the Zionist minister for strategic and intelligence affairs, told Agence France Presse while trying to express his entity's future fears.

"Instead of saying that Iran will finally comply with the Security Council resolutions, it tries to shift attention to Israel," he said.

"Israel is a very responsible country, a responsible democracy, that needs to survive and defend itself in one of the most difficult and hostile neighborhoods on the face of the earth," the minister said, offering his argument while Palestinian people inside territories and in diaspora still commemorate his entity's massacres in their occupied country.  

Sheikh Rouhani is hoping for a deal to end biting sanctions imposed over Iran's sensitive uranium work, urging the international community to recognize his state's right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes.

Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons but does not publicly acknowledge its arsenal and, unlike Iran, has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty that allows for international regulation.