Iranian lawmaker says US strikes give Iran legal right to exit nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Iran has the legal right to withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) based on its Article 10, following US strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, Parliament Foreign Policy Committee Head Abbas Golroo says on X on Sunday.

Article 10 states that an NPT member has “the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country.”

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