Iranian MPs push to quit nuclear treaty as Trump claims ‘regime change’ win

Tehran’s participation in the 1968 accord became pointless after the US-Israeli attack, a high-ranking lawmaker has said.

Iranian lawmakers are looking into the possibility of withdrawing Tehran from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a high-ranking MP, Alaeddin Borujerdi, has said.

Iran’s further participation in the 1968 accord became pointless after the attack on the country by the US and Israel, Borujerdi, who sits on the parliament’s National Security Committee, argued.

Tehran is “not seeking to develop a nuclear bomb, but we cannot simultaneously adhere to the rules of the game and be bombed,” he said.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has claimed that his goal of regime change in Iran was achieved by killing the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in the initial strikes on February 28. He has since then been replaced in the post by his son, Mojtaba Khamenei.

“The one regime was decimated, destroyed, they’re all dead. The next regime is mostly dead, and the third regime – we’re dealing with different people than anybody’s dealt with before… it truly is regime change… you can’t do much better than that,” Trump said.

The new leadership in Iran is “very reasonable,” he said, claiming that he feels that a deal with Tehran could be reached “soon.”

Media reported a suspected US-Israeli attack on the Tabriz Petrochemical Company.

Trump remains “generally open to the idea” of launching a special operations raid on Iranian nuclear sites to seize some 450 kilograms of enriched uranium believed to be stored there, according to the Wall Street Journal’s sources. The US president also told the Financial Times that he was not ruling out the possibility of seizing Iran’s key export hub, Kharg Island, in order to take control of Tehran’s oil exports.

The IDF and Iranian forces have continued to exchange strikes, with videos capturing a major blaze erupting at an oil refinery in Israeli city of Haifa after one of the attacks.

Iran will collect payments from ships going through the Strait of Hormuz in line with a law being prepared by the country’s parliament, high-ranking MP Alaeddin Borujerdi has said.

The Philippines’ sole oil refinery, Petron, announced that it has secured almost 2.5 million barrels of crude oil from Russia, avoiding “nationwide fuel shortages and sharp price spikes.”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has confirmed the death of its navy chief, Alireza Tangsiri. Israel said earlier that Tangsiri, who had been in the job since 2018, had been killed in an airstrike last Thursday.