Iran Threatens to Quit Nuclear Treaty

The Iranian parliament threatened in a letter to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States and its allies kept pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. The letter warned that Annan and the Security Council must resolve the dispute over Iran's nuclear program "peacefully, (or) there will be no option for the parliament but to ask the government to withdraw its signature" from an addendum to the treaty that calls for signers to allow snap inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the treaty monitoring body.