Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of maintaining a secret nuclear weapons storage facility in Tehran.
"Iran has not abandoned its goal to develop nuclear weapons," Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly as he held up maps and photos of a building in Tehran's Turquzabad district.
Netanyahu claimed Iran uses the building to store "massive amounts of equipment and material from Iran's secret weapons program."
Netanyahu said he informed the International Atomic Energy Agency and some intelligence agencies about the facility and demanded that the IAEA immediately inspect it.
Iran did not immediately respond to the accusation, but has denied it has a nuclear weapons development program.
Speaking to reporters at the assembly Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump defended his decision to withdraw from the 2015 six-nation agreement for Tehran to give up its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of crippling economic sanctions.
Trump said "Iran has to come back and they have to talk" if it wants to avoid a new round of economic sanctions.
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