Israel urges UN to contain Iranian nuclear threat

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday exhorted the United Nations to ensure that Iran, whose leader he described as a "Holocaust denier," never acquires nuclear weapons.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 64th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, the United States, Sept. 24, 2009, on the second day of the general debate of the assembly.(Xinhua/Shen Hong)

"A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies that the murder of six million Jews took place and pledges to wipe out the Jewish State," Netanyahu told the annual general debate of the UN General Assembly, referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The general debate opened here on Wednesday.