India, June 23 -- Israel remains hell-bent on stopping Iran from pursuing its ambitious nuclear plans, reaffirming its determination to dismantle the programme with strikes that started on June 13 and have now spiraled into a full-fledged war-like conflict.

While Israel calls Tehran's covert pursuit of atomic weapons an existential threat, it parallelly continues its longstanding policy of nuclear ambiguity, a strategy that has raised accusations of double standards from critics in the region and beyond. Follow Israel Iran conflict live updates

Israel has never confirmed nor denied possessing nuclear weapons, but for decades it has been widely believed to be the only nuclear-armed nation in the Middle East. Experts, cited in a Reuters r...