Iran threatened to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation 27/01/2020 – Posted in: Daily News

Non-Proliferation Treaty

 

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  • About the Non-Proliferation Treaty
  • About Nuclear Deal

 

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Iran threatened to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) if European countries bring alleged violations of the historic nuclear deal with world powers to the United Nations Security Council.

 

Non-Proliferation Treaty

  • The 190-member NPT, which was signed in 1968 and came into effect in 1970, bans signatories other than the United States, Russia, China, Britain, and France from acquiring nuclear weapons – in return for allowing them to pursue peaceful nuclear programmes for power generation, overseen by the UN.
  • NPT is the foundation of global nuclear arms control since the Cold War, including a 2015 deal that Iran signed with the world powers, which offered it access to global trade in return for accepting curbs to its atomic programme.
  • The Treaty represents the only binding commitment in a multilateral treaty to the goal of disarmament by the nuclear-weapon States.
  • Treaty establishes a safeguards system under the responsibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

 

Issue

  • The Islamic Republic gradually stepped back from its obligations under the accord after United States quit the deal in 2018 and reimposed crushing sanctions that have severely harmed the Iranian economy.
  • Germany, France, and the UK accused Iran of violating the nuclear accord and launched a dispute mechanism, which could see the matter referred back to the Security Council and a reimposition of UN sanctions.

 

Iran Nuclear deal

The Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, France, and China—plus Germany) and the European Union.

Based on the April 2015 Iran nuclear deal framework, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between Iran and the P5+1 and EU was announced on July 14, 2015 in Vienna.

 

Source: Times of Israel

 

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