How come?

I wonder why most media continue to speculate about Iran’s nuclear capacity yet it is a signatory to the International Non-Proliferation Treaty - but don't mention that Israel has nuclear weapons and is not a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty. 

According to Wikipedia:

'Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD)

Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons.

Estimates of Israel's stockpile range between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads,[2][5][6][7][8][9][19] and the country is believed to possess a nuclear triad of delivery options: by F-15 and F-16 fighters, by Dolphin-class submarine-launched cruise missiles, and by the Jericho series of intermediate to intercontinental range ballistic missiles.[20][21]

Its first deliverable nuclear weapon is thought to have been completed in late 1966 or early 1967; which would make it the sixth country in the world to have developed them.'

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Wiki: 'Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons[474] and per a 1993 report, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction.[475][needs update]

Israel has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons[476] and maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity towards its nuclear capabilities.[477]

The Israeli Navy's Dolphin submarines are believed to be armed with nuclear missiles offering second-strike capability.[478]'

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Wiki: 'Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has signed treaties repudiating the possession of WMD including the Biological Weapons Convention,[1] the Chemical Weapons Convention,[2] and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).[3] Iran has first-hand knowledge of WMD effects—over 100,000 Iranian troops and civilians were victims of chemical weapons during the 1980s Iran–Iraq War.[4][5]'

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Wiki 'Opened for signature in 1968, the Treaty entered into force in 1970. As required by the text, after twenty-five years, NPT parties met in May 1995 and agreed to extend the treaty indefinitely.[4] More countries are parties to the NPT than any other arms limitation and disarmament agreement, a testament to the treaty's significance.[3] As of August 2016, 191 states have become parties to the treaty, though North Korea, which acceded in 1985 but never came into compliance, announced its withdrawal from the NPT in 2003, following detonation of nuclear devices in violation of core obligations.[5]'

Wiki: 'Four UN member states have never accepted the NPT, three of which possess or are thought to possess nuclear weapons: India, Israel, and Pakistan. In addition, South Sudan, founded in 2011, has not joined.'

Wiki: 'The treaty defines nuclear-weapon states as those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device before 1 January 1967; these are the United States(1945), Russia(1949), the United Kingdom (1952), France (1960), and China (1964). Four other states are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel is deliberately ambiguous regarding its nuclear weapons status.'

Wiki: 'The NPT is often seen to be based on a central bargain: the NPT non-nuclear-weapon states agree never to acquire nuclear weapons and the NPT nuclear-weapon states in exchange agree to share the benefits of peaceful nuclear technology and to pursue nuclear disarmament aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals.[6]'

Really? Have you noticed much activity on the part of nuclear-weapon states 'aimed at the ultimate elimination of their nuclear arsenals'?

Wikipedia again: 'The treaty is reviewed every five years in meetings called Review Conferences. Even though the treaty was originally conceived with a limited duration of 25 years, the signing parties decided, by consensus, to unconditionally extend the treaty indefinitely during the Review Conference in New York City on 11 May 1995 ...'

SBS NEWS yesterday reported that 'shortly before Israel's strikes on Iran, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), had declared Iran was in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years' in failing to provide the agency with "full and timely co-operation regarding undeclared nuclear material and activities".

Earlier this month, the IAEA said Iran had enough uranium enriched to near-weapons grade to potentially make nine nuclear bombs.'

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Text - cv williams based on Wikipedia information freely available & an SBS report by Alex Gallagher, 'The "unsustainable" reason behind who can have nuclear weapons, and who can’t'.

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