Following the US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites, Iran has the legal right to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty based on Article 10 of it, the chairman of the parliamentary foreign policy committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Iranian parliament) Abbas Golru said today on the "Ex" platform, quoted by Reuters, BTA reported.
The agency notes that according to Article 10, each member state has "the right to withdraw from the treaty if it decides that extraordinary events have threatened the supreme interests of its country".
A NATO official said today that the alliance is closely monitoring the situation after US President Donald Trump announced that the US armed forces had struck three of Iran's main nuclear sites, reported Reuters.
When asked by a journalist about NATO's response to the US air strikes and the possible impact on the North Atlantic Alliance's non-combat advisory mission and military capacity-building in neighboring Iraq, he said: "Of course we are monitoring the situation closely".