The spread of nuclear weapons throughout the Arab world and Iran is nightmarishly unsettling.

But have no fear. The International Atomic Energy Agency is springing into action—against the only country in the region that really needs nukes and has demonstrated enough responsibility to handle them: IAEA to press for inspections of Israel’s nuclear facility.

JERUSALEM – The International Atomic Energy Agency plans a campaign to force Israel to permit international inspections of its Dimona nuclear facility.

The agency has been under longterm pressure from the European Union, Arab states and Iran to focus more attention on Irael’s nuclear program.

Several Arab countries reiterated their call for a nuclear free zone in the Middle East during a United Nations sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva on May 27. Arab envoys said the establishment of such a zone would be their priority over the coming year.

IAEA director-general Mohammed El Baradei plans to visit Israel over the next two months, officials said. The visit was expected to take place following the IAEA board of directors’s meeting in mid-June to discuss Iranian compliance with international nuclear inspection efforts. The United States has charged that Teheran has violated its pledge to the IAEA.