Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday agreed to urgently debate a bill demanding that the government suspend cooperation over inspections by the U.N. nuclear watchdog. If approved, the bill will oblige the government to suspend the implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which grants U.N. nuclear experts unfettered inspections of Iran's nuclear facilities at short notice. "The parliament intends to block the misuse of the Additional Protocol," Speaker Golam Ali Haddad Adel said. The move by parliament is likely to place the government under pressure to maintain, and even further harden, its stance on its nuclear program. Iran insists that the program is for peaceful purposes, but the United States suspects Iran's Islamic regime is seeking nuclear arms capability. The additional protocol requires any signatory country to report all its nuclear facilities to the International Atomic Energy Agency. It also obliges signatories to admit short-noticed intrusive snap inspections of the facilities.