Iran’s parliament is unlikely to approve an urgent proposal to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, with the measure potentially securing no more than 70 votes, a member of parliament’s National Security Committee said on Sunday.
Leaving the NPT during wartime would effectively mean pursuing a nuclear weapon, something Iran does not intend to do, Mohammad Mehdi Shahriari told Jamaran. Withdrawal would only increase costs and further escalate the situation, he added.
Shahriari said the Supreme National Security Council and Ali Khamenei had previously opposed leaving the treaty, while Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had also stressed that Iran should refrain from building nuclear weapons.
The proposal to withdraw from the NPT and separate efforts to impeach the foreign minister and several other ministers would each receive “perhaps 70 votes at most,” Shahriari said.
Some people were systematically sending messages to lawmakers to encourage them to support such measures, Shahriari added, calling on the Intelligence Ministry and Revolutionary Guards intelligence organization to investigate.
People who “have no understanding of economic problems” and whose “tables have grown larger” under sanctions are continually obstructing negotiations, Shahriari said.
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