Iran to Leave NPT?........
“Iran's parliament may consider withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), an Iranian lawmaker was quoted by the country's official IRNA news agency as saying Saturday. The threat comes a day after a resolution passed by the board of the UN nuclear agency demanded that Tehran immediately stop building its newly revealed nuclear facility and freeze uranium enrichment. Mohammad Karamirad said Saturday that parliament may also consider blocking inspection of Iran's nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which it has been allowing routinely so far. Karamirad does not speak for the government. Earlier on Saturday, a senior Iranian cleric said Iran will produce its own fuel for a medical research reactor in Tehran if it is not made available by the UN atomic watchdog……….. Uranium enrichment is the process used to make fuel for nuclear power plants, but when extended it can also produce fissile material for an atomic bomb. Western powers have long suspected that Iran, despite its fierce denials, is trying to build a nuclear bomb………..” Almanar (Hezbollah TV).
If they so, they will be in good
company: Israel, Pakistan, and India.
North Korea also withdrew in 2003.
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