Iran says parliament is preparing bill to leave nuclear non-proliferation treaty
Iranian parliamentarians are preparing a bill that could push Tehran toward exiting the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty the foreign ministry said on Monday, while reiterating Tehran’s official stance against developing nuclear weapons, Reuters reported.
“In light of recent developments, we will take an appropriate decision. Government has to enforce parliament bills but such a proposal is just being prepared and we will coordinate in the later stages with parliament,” the ministry’s spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, when asked at a press conference about Tehran potentially leaving the NPT.
The NPT, which Iran ratified in 1970, guarantees countries the right to pursue civilian nuclear power in return for requiring them to forego atomic weapons and cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
Israel began bombing Iran last week, saying Tehran was on the verge of building a nuclear bomb. Iran has always said its nuclear program is peaceful, although the IAEA declared last week that Tehran was in violation of its NPT obligations, according to Reuters.
Israel says Tehran residents to 'pay price' after Tel Aviv, Haifa attacks
Iranian missiles struck Israel's Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn on Monday, killing at least eight people and destroying homes, prompting Israel's defence minister to warn that Tehran residents would "pay the price and soon," Reuters reported.
Iran said its parliament was preparing a bill to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), adding that Tehran remains opposed to developing weapons of mass destruction. Passing the bill could take several weeks.
Israel is presumed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal but neither confirms nor denies it. It is the only Middle East state that has not signed the NPT.
Israel's military, which has gutted Iran's nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes, said on Monday it had killed four senior intelligence officials including the head of the Revolutionary Guards' intelligence organisation, according to Reuters.
Former Industry Minister Shastri passes away
Former Minister for Industry and Nepali Congress former central member Dhundiraj Shastri (Poudel) passed away on Monday. He was 90.
He breathed his last during the course of treatment at the KMC Hospital in Kathmandu at 4 am today.
He was born in 1993 BS as the eldest child of Khemraj Poudel and Sabitra Poudel in the then Kimdanda Panchayat-8, Nimdanda (now Bhumikasthan Municipality-8, Arghakhanchi).
The socialist thinker Shastri has two wives, two sons, and two daughters. One of the wives has already passed away.
Since his sons are abroad, the funeral will be conducted after they arrive, according to his family member Ashok Poudel.
RPP not to take allowance of Parliament meeting held on June 15
The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has said that its lawmakers will not take the allowance of the Parliament meeting held on June 15.
RPP Chief Whip Gyan Bahadur Shahi said that the RPP boycotted the Parliament meeting on June 15 and has also informed the Federal Parliament Secretariat that they will not take the meeting allowance.
The RPP protested in the meeting on Sunday demanding an investigation against the Home Minister in the 'visit visa' scam. However, the party decided to boycott the House meeting because it was held despite their protest in the Parliament. The RPP Parliamentary Party meeting today took a decision not to take the allowance for the boycotted meeting.
