JERUSALEM, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Israel's Foreign Ministry Sunday questioned the UN nuclear watchdog's ability to monitor Iran's nuclear program, and urged the international community to take determined action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

    The comments were made in response to the latest reports published over the weekend by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on its investigations in Iran and Syria.

    The report on Iran "contains serious findings of increased uranium enrichment in Iran, in violation of Security Council resolutions, as well as other activities that could be connected to a military nuclear program," the ministry said in a statement.

    "The report also emphasizes the IAEA's inability to carry out full and effective monitoring in Iran due to that country's continued lack of cooperation," said the statement.

    "These findings demonstrate that the international community, no more than Israel, cannot place its trust in IAEA monitoring in Iran," it added.

    "Accordingly, what is needed from the international community is immediate and determined action to ensure that Iran will not be able to produce nuclear weapons," said the ministry.

    Meanwhile, Israel claimed that the report on Syria "reinforces suspicions that Syria is trying to blur evidence of secret nuclear activity" in its eastern part, and called on IAEA to "condemn Syria for hiding the facts pertaining to this activity."

    "The IAEA Director General has so far refrained from using all the means at his disposal to investigate Syria. Israel calls upon him to conduct an investigation free from political considerations and bias," said the statement.

    The Jewish state also pointed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying that the UN body should "demand that North Korea, which is mentioned in the report, cooperate in the investigation."

    Israel regards Iran as its major security threat, and has long been accusing the Islamic republic of secretly developing nuclear weapons, a charge Iran firmly denies. Iran stresses that its nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes.

    Syria is currently also one of Iran's enemy states. Two years ago, Israeli air force bombed a target in Syria, claiming that it was the site of a DPRK-designed nuclear reactor.