Without naming Iran, UN Sec-Gen denounces his hosts for threatening Israel

In a speech at the Non-Aligned summit in Tehran, Ban Ki-moon said: "I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust," he said. "Claiming that Israel does not have the right to exist or describing it in racist terms is not only wrong but undermines the very principle we all have pledged to honor.