TEHRAN, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Saudi Arabia has called for resolving the international controversy over Iran's nuclear program through peaceful means and negotiations.
Deputy President of the Saudi Consultative Council Saleh bin Saoud al-Ali told the second day of a conference for Asian parliamentarians in Tehran Monday that "duality by the international community in dealing with the issue of possessing nuclear energy should be eliminated."
"It is not correct to allow big countries to have nuclear activities while denying other countries the right for similar activities," the official Iranian News Agency quoted al-Ali as saying.
He said the Saudi Consultative Council, a toothless rubber-stamp body, calls for destroying nuclear weapons and barring production of weapons of mass destruction in the whole Middle East "in order to guarantee the interests of all peoples in the region."
Iran faces the possibility of international economic sanctions for refusing to stop uranium enrichment, which the West, particularly the United States, suspects Tehran will use to build a nuclear bomb.
