Iran’s parliament moves towards ending of UN inspections of nuclear sites

A protester holds a placard which reads in Persian: ” Stop implementation of the Additional Protocol (of the IAEA)” during a gathering in front of Iranian Foreign Ministry (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Iran’s parliament advanced a bill that would end UN inspections of its nuclear facilities and require the government to boost its uranium enrichment if European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal do not provide relief from oil and banking sanctions.

The vote to debate the bill, which would need to pas through several other stages before becoming law, was a show of defiance after the killing of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist last month.