NPT withdrawal bill

MP Malek Shariati uploaded the first NPT withdrawal bill to Iran's parliamentary portal on 28 March 2026, tagged as priority legislation, alongside a separate bill to write Iran's Hormuz transit toll into permanent law. A parliamentary committee approved the measure, but the Majlis did not reconvene to hold a full floor vote and the bill stalled there. In practice the suspension of IAEA cooperation, which the Majlis passed 221-0 days later, achieved much of what formal withdrawal would have without the bill ever coming to a vote.

A separate, later bill has since taken its place as the live legislative vehicle. MP Hossein-Ali Haji Deligani filed a triple-urgency bill on 20 September 2026, five days after 130 deputies petitioned for withdrawal; triple urgency compresses debate, vote and clerical vetting into a single sitting day. As of that date Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf had not scheduled it, and filing alone does not start the treaty's 90-day exit notice clock.

Either bill, if passed, would make Iran only the second state to leave the NPT after North Korea in 2003, formally ending the IAEA safeguards obligations that already have no practical access to Iran's programme. Iran held roughly 440 kg of 60%-enriched uranium beyond inspector reach as of the treaty debate's most recent phase, material that would be freed from any treaty-based oversight regime if a withdrawal bill eventually passes.