Israel has already breached its own red line set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by acquiring "dozens of nuclear warheads," Iranian Defense Minister Ahmed Vahidi said on Saturday.

"If having the atomic bomb is passing the red line, the Zionist regime, that possesses dozens of nuclear warheads and weapons of mass destruction, has passed the red line years ago, and it has to be stopped," he said, according to the ISNA news agency.

Iran's foreign minister on Friday demanded that the U.N. Security Council act against the countries that killed Iranian nuclear scientists and launched cyber-attacks against its atomic research.

Without naming Israel or the United States, which Iran has accused over the killings of four scientists, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran had been a victim of "nuclear terrorism."

Jordan has named career diplomat Walid Obeidat as a new ambassador to Israel, filling a position that has been vacant since 2010, a senior official said on Friday.

"The council of ministers has decided to appoint Walid Obeidat as an ambassador to Israel," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

A resolution seeking enhanced U.N. observer status for the Palestinians will be submitted later this year after the U.S. presidential election, a Palestinian official said on Friday.

"We have begun consultations on the format of the text that will be presented to the General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian status to an observer state status," Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s executive committee, told reporters.

Israel's threats of military action against Iran over its nuclear programme only serve to boost the defiance of the Islamic republic, the head of the Revolutionary Guards said on Friday.

"The enemies want to stop us continuing our path... but these threats only reinforce our determination to continue in the same direction," General Mohammed Ali Jafari said in a speech to thousands of members of the country's Basij militia, according to the Guards' Sepahnews website.

Jordan has named carrier diplomat Walid Obeidat as a new ambassador to Israel, filling a position that has been vacant since 2010, a senior official said on Friday.

"The council of ministers has decided to appoint Walid Obeidat as an ambassador to Israel," the official told Agence France Presse on condition of anonymity.

Israel's media on Friday splashed their front pages with pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu literally drawing a red line for Iran on a bomb diagram at the United Nations General Assembly.

But while some commentators took jabs at the cartoonish visual aid, they said Netanyahu had scored a major PR coup, winning global headlines while setting a deadline that could help ease tense relations with the White House.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew the world a stark red line Thursday, warning that Iran could have a nuclear bomb in less than a year and demanding international action.

Wielding a red marker pen and a cartoonish diagram of a round bomb with a fizzing fuse, Netanyahu told the U.N. General Assembly that the international community must put a limit on Tehran's uranium enrichment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to set a "clear red line" on Iran's controversial nuclear program in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly later Thursday, an Israeli official said.

"In his speech, the prime minister will set a clear red line" on Iranian nuclear activities, a senior Israeli official told reporters traveling with Netanyahu as his plane arrived in New York.

Egypt sees no reason to make changes to its peace treaty with Israel, presidential spokesman Yasser Ali said in statements carried Thursday by the state-owned paper Al-Ahram.

"There is no need for the moment to amend the Camp David agreement," said Ali who was accompanying President Mohammed Morsi in New York for the meetings of the U.N. General Assembly.