Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security Committee of parliament, said: "First we sh
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Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of the National Security Committee of parliament, said: "First we should build a nuclear bomb, and then Iran should withdraw from the NPT." He said the West's conduct is pushing Iran toward changing its nuclear doctrine and building an atomic bomb, and that the US approach to North Korea differs because Pyongyang possesses nuclear weapons. If the nuclear doctrine is to change, he argued, a bomb must first be built, and only then should Iran leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), since withdrawing without a bomb would forfeit the benefits of IAEA overs