Lawmaker Hossein-Ali Haji Deligani submitted a triple-urgency bill to the Presiding Board of the Majlis, Iran's parliament, on Sunday 20 September seeking Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Iranian state media reported1. Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has not put it on the order paper, and no vote has been held. The filing followed a petition on Tuesday 15 September in which 130 lawmakers urged the Presiding Board to start withdrawal procedures "in the shortest possible time", citing the failure to protect Iranian nuclear sites and alleging that IAEA inspections had been used for espionage2. Roughly 45% of the chamber has signed in public, yet the bill still sits with the Speaker. Both the petition's reasoning and the bill's framing are Iranian government positions, carried by Iranian state outlets.
Triple urgency is the fastest track the Majlis has. Once the Speaker schedules it, the general framework and the detail are debated and voted in a single open session and sent to the Guardian Council, the clerical body that vets all Iranian legislation, that same day3. The distance between a scheduling decision and a formal notice is therefore one sitting day rather than several weeks, which leaves the IAEA and the E3 hours of warning rather than months. Qalibaf alone decides when the bill reaches the floor, and he has not listed it. Holding it back is itself the leverage: a bill on the Speaker's desk can be scheduled the morning after any Western move, and costs nothing while it sits there.
Article X of the NPT requires three months' written notice to every treaty party and to the Security Council President, stating the extraordinary events involved, so nothing filed so far starts that clock. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei maintains that with the end of Resolution 2231 on 18 October 2025 "its provisions have officially terminated"4, which is why Tehran treats the IAEA referral rather than its NPT membership as the live legal threat. The E3, the United States and the Council majority reject that reading outright. Iran, Russia and China have run the same argument since the IAEA Board met in June. For readers, the test to watch is an Article X notice, not a parliamentary vote.
