"Le Manité": Israel only country with nuclear arsenal

Paris – Saba: The French newspaper "Le Manité" reported on Monday that "Israel is the only country in the Middle East with an arsenal of approximately 100 nuclear warheads," thanks to a French-backed program that operates in complete ambiguity and disregard for international law.
Le Manité said: "None of the previous US presidents, including Donald Trump, dared to demand that Israel sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), on the contrary, during Trump's first term, in 2019, the United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty that bound it to Russia.
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