Iran says US pushed UN nuclear non-proliferation talks into ‘free fall’

Published May 23, 2026 Updated May 23, 2026 08:19am

Iran’s mission to the UN has accused Washington’s “excessive demands” of pushing nuclear nonproliferation talks towards collapse, AlJazeera reports.

“The NPT Review Conference failed for the third consecutive time due to obstructionism by the US and its allies,” the mission said in a post on X.

It added that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and, ultimately, achieve a world free of them — has “no future” without broader disarmament efforts.