Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei greets the crowd during a ceremony on June 4, 205. (Credit: KHAMENEI.IR/AFP)
The Iranians were using the threat in case the "snapback" a mechanism, which was supposed to reinstate all U.N. sanctions against Iran prior to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was activated. The war launched by Israel at dawn Friday, June 13 gave them another reason to do so. On June 16, for the first time in over 50 years, Iran suggested, via its Foreign Ministry, that it might withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). According to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a bill to that effect was being prepared in the Iranian Parliament. What does this treaty, a product of the Cold War world, represent, and what consequences would Iran's withdrawal have?A largely ineffective textSigned in 1968 and effective from 1970, the NPT today includes 191 countries. Signatory states...
The Iranians were using the threat in case the "snapback" a mechanism, which was supposed to reinstate all U.N. sanctions against Iran prior to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was activated. The war launched by Israel at dawn Friday, June 13 gave them another reason to do so. On June 16, for the first time in over 50 years, Iran suggested, via its Foreign Ministry, that it might withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). According to Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a bill to that effect was being prepared in the Iranian Parliament. What does this treaty, a product of the Cold War world, represent, and what consequences would Iran's withdrawal have?A largely ineffective textSigned in 1968 and effective from 1970, the NPT today includes 191 countries. Signatory states...
