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NPT Review Conference opens in New York amid strain over Iran
The NPT's credibility has long rested on a bargain trading nuclear restraint for security guarantees; military strikes on a signatory's facilities test whether that bargain still holds.
The facts · bedrock
Diplomats are meeting in New York from 27 April to 22 May for a session of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Conference. The conference convenes after a June 2025 conflict involving Iran, Israel, and the United States that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities. On 2 March 2026, Iran accused Israel and the United States of striking its Natanz nuclear complex in Isfahan province. Iran is a party to the NPT. Natanz was among the principal sites targeted in the earlier conflict.
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How it's being framed
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Crisis-of-trust frame
"Strikes on a state that signed and complied with the non-proliferation treaty have shattered the bargain at its core, leaving the NPT facing a political legitimacy crisis rather than a technical compliance problem."
Enforcement-failure frame
"Iran's nuclear facilities at Natanz remained a live proliferation threat that diplomacy could not contain, and the resort to military strikes reflects the limits of a treaty regime unable to police a determined would-be proliferator."