According to a UN press release, Syria’s UN ambassador, while bashing Israel, said something wholly unexpected yesterday at a session of the world body’s disarmament conference:

Israel was the fourth largest exporter of weapons of mass destruction and a violator of other nations’ airspace, and it had taken action against nuclear facilities, including the 6 July [sic] attack in Syria. He vowed that whenever a right of reply was exercised, Syria would expose the underlying goals of the Zionist entity.

Haaretz now reports that Syria is denying that their ambassador admitted that the target Israel struck deep inside their territory on September 6 was in fact nuclear.

Why are the Syrians going through this peculiar exercise in admission and denial? Was the ambassador misheard, as they are claiming, or were his remarks a slip acknowledging the truth? Or is Syria, like Israel itself, deliberately starting to practice a policy of ambiguity regarding its nuclear capabilities and plans?