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Iran Threatens to Leave Global Nuclear Weapons Treaty
(Independent-UK) Borzou Daragahi - Both Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, warned on Monday that the country was considering exiting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if Europe takes Tehran before the UN Security Council over its violations of the 2015 accord it signed with the West. Iran's foreign ministry on Monday also repeated their threat to nations hosting U.S. troops that they will be targets of Iranian reprisals if America uses their territory to stage attacks on the country. Moreover, Iranian officials announced two impending launches of its Zafer surveillance satellites into space. Non-proliferation experts fear that the delivery systems for putting a craft into orbit around the earth can also be used to launch long-range missiles.