Iranian lawmakers call for expelling European envoys and reviewing NPT exit

Iran’s parliament should withdraw ratification of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty while leaving the government’s signature intact in response to the UN sanctions snapback, Hossein Shariatmadari, editor-in-chief of ultra-conservative Kayhan daily wrote Monday.

“With this step the Islamic Republic accepts the spirit of the treaty, meaning no nuclear weapons production, but rejects safeguard obligations and inspections,” wrote the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the newspaper.

"The snapback will not change Iran’s economy because sanctions never truly went away," Shariatmadari wrote, adding that "hostile actions must not go unanswered."

The failure of all the member of the UN Security Council to endorse the draft resolution extending Resolution 2231 exposed the dominance of one power and European compliance, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday.

“Nearly half of its members are unconvinced that the E3-triggered reimposition is justified, legitimate, or legal,” Baghaei wrote on X.

The council’s "divisions" showed six of 15 members withheld support despite US and European pressure, Baghaei said.

"Resolution 2231 will be deemed terminated on 18 October 2025, as explicitly provided in the resolution itself. Any attempt by the E3 or the United States to revive terminated sanctions is null and void. FM Araghchi has conveyed this message directly in letters to his counterparts worldwide."

Iranian demand for migration is expected to rise following the return of UN sanctions against the Islamic Republic, Japan's NHK reported Sunday citing a travel agency in Tehran.

Requests for migration spiked more than fivefold after the 12-day war, the agency said.

The company now receives up to 1,600 applications a day, sometimes exceeding the capacity of its safe to hold applicants’ passports, NHK reported.

The current wave of migration is unprecedented in the past decade, an employee of the agency said.

The UN’s reimposition of snapback sanctions proved the Islamic Republic cannot be reformed and Ali Khamenei is responsible for decades of decline, Iran's exiled prince Reza Pahlavi said Sunday.

“These sanctions and their consequences are the responsibility of Ali Khamenei and his criminal regime who over 46 years have dragged Iran from prosperity to isolation,” Pahlavi wrote on X.

Sanctions alone would not stop the Islamic Republic’s actions but would weaken its resources, Pahlavi said, calling the move a victory for those pushing for maximum pressure.

“This is a victory for all those who have long called for maximum pressure on this regime as a means of tipping the scales in favor of the Iranian people and their movement for freedom,” Pahlavi said.

Governments must go further by designating the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, isolating the Islamic Republic diplomatically and economically, and backing Iranians seeking democracy, Pahlavi said.

“The Iranian people deserve no less,” he added.

Europe had no choice but to trigger the UN snapback mechanism against the Islamic Republic, though the door remains open for talks on a new agreement, Germany’s foreign ministry said late Sunday.

“The Islamic Republic must never acquire nuclear weapons,” the ministry said in a post on X, adding that Iran’s repeated violations of its commitments under the nuclear deal forced Britain, France, and Germany to act.

The three European countries said they would welcome renewed negotiations, but emphasized that sanctions were reinstated in response to Tehran’s failure to comply with its obligations.