Iranian MP says Ghalibaf blocked NPT withdrawal proposal

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the UN Security Council’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

“Tehran has long ignored calls from the IAEA and the international community, undermining the nuclear order,” Zelenskyy said on X.

He compared Iran’s actions to Russia’s seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, warning that both pose serious threats to nuclear security.

“Reckless regimes that ignore basic international law norms and pursue ambitions that endanger nuclear security must face a united and strong international response,” Zelenskyy added.

Iran's economic isolation would further intensify, stoking public fury, without a breakthrough in talks with the West over its nuclear program, Reuters reported citing four Iranian officials and two insiders.

They said agreeing to the West’s demands could create divisions within the ruling elite and undermine the Islamic Republic’s core principle of resisting Western pressure, a key element of Tehran’s defiant posture.

"The clerical establishment is trapped between a rock and a hard place. The existence of the Islamic Republic is in peril," Reuters reported citing an Iranian official as saying.

"Our people cannot handle more economic pressure or another war," the source added.

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Iranian lawmakers have prepared 15 proposals for withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee spokesman said on Sunday.

“The National Security Committee has drafted a comprehensive plan on the issue that may also be discussed in parliament,” Ebrahim Rezaei told the Tehran-based outlet Didban Iran.

He added that the Cairo agreement with the IAEA will not be implemented and said, “The activation of the snapback mechanism is a unique opportunity to develop Iran’s nuclear industry.”

Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi told state television on Saturday night that the agreement between Riyadh and Islamabad was positive and proposed Iran, Iraq and others also take part.

“Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iraq can reach a collective defense pact,” he said, while acknowledging that US influence over Riyadh and Islamabad may limit such moves.

Earlier in September, Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan signed a mutual defense pact in Riyadh, bolstering their decades-old security partnership a week after Israel’s strikes on Qatar. Riyadh insisted the deal was not a response to specific events but the culmination of years of talks.

The agreement, described by a senior Saudi official as a “comprehensive defensive agreement that encompasses all military means,” says that aggression against either country will be considered an attack on both.

Pakistan, the only Muslim-majority nuclear power, has long stationed troops in the kingdom and provides technical and operational support to its military.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed the pact alongside Pakistan’s powerful army chief Asim Munir.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Safavi said Iran launched more than 500 long-range missiles during the June conflict but admitted weaknesses in air defense and intelligence.

“Foreign assessments show 60% believe Iran won, because Israel did not achieve its objectives,” he said, without mentioning any source.

He added Iran was rebuilding damaged radar and missile systems and would “certainly increase” its offensive capabilities.

“The enemy could not tolerate us striking Haifa’s refinery and power plants,” Safavi said, adding that Iranian missiles destroyed advanced Israeli sites and pilots.

Safavi warned the conflict was “not fully over” and called for strengthening diplomacy, media, and military readiness. “We must continue the path of power-building. Offensive power is not only in air and space but in all domains,” he said.

The main enemy plan after the snapback is a cognitive operation to create political, social and economic instability in Iran, lawmaker Abolfazl Abutorabi said on Sunday.

“The main enemy plan after the snapback is a cognitive operation aimed at creating political, social and economic instability in Iran,” Abutorabi said.

“Given the circumstances, Israel’s program in the coming weeks includes political polarization, a jump in exchange rates and the start of episodic unrest,” he added.