Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says leaving the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is one of the “many options” Tehran has to retaliate against US sanctions, according to state media reports.
The United States has imposed a raft of sanctions against the Islamic Republic since President Donald Trump withdrew last year from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers. Last week, Washington announced an end to sanction waivers for buyers of Iranian crude oil, and earlier this month the US declared Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards a “foreign terrorist organization.”
“The Islamic republic has many options… (leaving) the NPT is one of them,” Zarif says in remarks to Iranian reporters in New York aired by state television.
State news agency IRNA says Zarif was asked why he had not touted leaving the nuclear treaty as one of Iran’s possible reactions during his trip as he had done so previously.
“The country’s officials are deliberating” the different options and measures, Zarif replied, adding that the possibility of leaving the NPT was among those options. He did not list the other options.
— AFP
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