By Xinhua,
Jerusalem : Israel refused on Tuesday to comment on remarks made by former U.S. president Jimmy Carter earlier in Britain that the Jewish state has 150 nuclear weapons.
“I have no comment on this,” Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told Xinhua in a phone interview, without elaborating.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel told Xinhua that Israel has noticed the remarks made by Carter, but “we never discuss the issue.”
The London Times Sunday quoted Carter as saying Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. The 83-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner made the remarks in a speech at a literary festival in Hay-on-Wye, in Wales.
Israel is generally believed to have nuclear weapons. But the Jewish state has neither acknowledged nor denied its nuclear capability.