In his address to the virtual UN General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emphasized the importance of “standing up to Iran” and praised President Trump for “forcing countries to choose between doing business with America or doing business with Iran, and for taking out out “the world’s most dangerous terrorist,” Qassem Suleimani.

In his message to the UN, Netanyahu stated that there is no question Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, and claimed that rather than curbing Iran’s aggression, “the nuclear deal fed and funded it”.

Netanyahu also criticized the Security Council for its “appeasement” of Iran despite Iran’s “brazen violations” of the terms of the nuclear deal that were presented in the documents that Israel provided: “In the run-up to the nuclear deal, Israel was told—especially by our European friends—that any Iranian violation would be met with a quick and severe response. In the face of the irrefutable evidence of the nuclear archive, the Security Council has done, well, absolutely nothing.”

The Israeli prime minister also revealed the location of a Hezbollah secret “missile factory” and an arms depot in Beirut “meters away from a gas company”.

Israel has repeatedly accused the Shiite movement Hezbollah, backed by Israel's arch-foe Iran, of building missiles to attack the Jewish state.

Report from Beirut indicates Hezbollah quickly organized a media tour to the locations pinpointed by Netanyahu in an attempt to prove the opposite.

“I say to the people of Lebanon, Israel means you no harm, but Iran does; Iran and Hezbollah have deliberately put you and your families in grave danger,” Netanyahu continued.

“Iran has been working on a new generation of centrifuges, it’s called the IR9, which will multiply Iran’s enrichment capability fifty-fold,” he added. “We who live in the Middle East are suffering the consequences of that irresponsible deal. A richer and emboldened Iran used the billions that flowed into its coffers to fuel its campaign of carnage and conquest across the region.”

Netanyahu declared that “While the Security Council is divided, we in the region are united. Both Arabs and Israelis are together urging tough action on Iran. And when Arabs and Israelis agree, others should pay attention.”

He concluded: Israel calls upon all members of the Security Council, stand with the United States against Iran’s aggression, stand with it in insisting that Iran end its nuclear weapons program once and for all, stand with the United States in confronting the greatest danger to peace in our region.

With reporting by AFP