Iran withdrawal from nuclear treaty 'significant but not unexpected'
It is "significant but not unexpected" that Iran is preparing to withdraw from a nuclear non-proliferation treaty, a former UK ambassador to the US has told Sky News.
Lord Darroch has just been speaking to Breakfast presenter Wilfred Frost about the news from Tehran (see 9.43am post).
Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said this morning that Iran's parliament was preparing a bill to leave the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - an international agreement aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear technology and weapons.
Iran is party to it, but has developed nuclear technology - with some fearing it intends to take this further.
And recently, Iran was found to have breached its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in 20 years.
