UK saw Israel as ‘chief problem’ to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions

UK saw Israel as ‘chief problem’ to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Israel’s nuclear arms programme was seen as the major obstacle to achieving a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, declassified files from 1993 show. An agreement to introduce such a zone could have curbed Iran’s nuclear ambitions which were then described as being at an “early stage”. While the UK government supported a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East at this time, officials in the Foreign Office saw the “chief problem” to…