Iran and Lebanon on Friday issued a statement calling for dismantlement of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in the Middle East, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.

The statement was issued in Beirut by Iran's Majlis (parliament) Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, who arrived in Beirut early Thursday on a four-day visit to Lebanon, and his Lebanese counterpart Nabih Berri, said IRNA.

The statement stressed the importance of scrapping WMD in the Mideast region, specially calling on the international community to force Israel to speedily destroy its WMDs.

The consolidation of bilateral ties and the two sides' common stances on regional and international issues were also among other issues stressed in the statement.

Iran has been trying hard to deny the US accusation of developing nuclear weapons, saying Tehran is always advocating a Middle East free from WMDs.

Source: Xinhua