(JTA) — Iran is exerting diplomatic pressure at the International Atomic Energy Agency to try and avoid an Israeli military strike on its nuclear facilities.
The Islamic Republic, with the backing of the 118 countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, has moved to introduce a resolution at next month’s meeting of the IAEA banning military strikes on nuclear facilities, according to reports.
Though the language of the resolution is general, the move is seen as an effort to ramp up pressure on Israel, which has not ruled out a strike on Iranian nuclear sites. Israel has a history of pre-emptively striking nuclear facilities in hostile countries, taking out the Iraqi reactor at Osirak in 1981 and raiding a suspected nuclear facility in Syria in 2007.
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