TEHRAN – Iran’s human rights chief on Thursday wrote a letter to the IAEA director general demanding the UN nuclear watchdog body to inform the United Nations Security Council about dangers of possible use of nuclear weapons by the Israeli regime against the downtrodden Palestinian people in Gaza.

The letter by Mohammad Eslami, the director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), to Rafael Grossi came a few days after Israel's Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu suggested in a radio show that atomic weapons could be "one option" to target Gaza.  Eliyahu called all the residents of the Gaza Strip militant.

In part of his letter, Eslami said it goes without saying that the Israeli regime has not signed any treaties on banning weapons of mass destruction, especially the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

This regime is also halting efforts to establish a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons, Iran’s top nuclear official added.

Revital Gotliv, a Knesset member from the Likud political party, has also made calls for Israel to resort to a "doomsday" weapon to target Palestinians in Gaza. 

Russia has warned that nuclear threats made by Israeli officials in relation to the war in Gaza are becoming more escalatory, calling them "provocative and unacceptable."

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that such provocative statements associated with nuclear use is proof that Israel has such weapons in its stockpile.

"Against the background of Israel's historical policy of uncertainty regarding its possession of nuclear weapons, these statements not only clearly confirm the presence of such weapons in this country, but also demonstrate the readiness to seriously consider the possibility to use them in completely inappropriate scenarios," Zakharova said, according to Russian state-owned media network TASS.