The Iranian Parliament threatened in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Sunday to force the government to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty if the United States continued pressuring Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment. "There will be no option for the Parliament but to ask the government to withdraw its signature for the Additional Protocol [to the NPT] and review Article 10 of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty," according to the letter by the lawmakers that was read on state-run radio Sunday.Meanwhile, U.S. President George W. Bush said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threats to the international community must be taken seriously. "When he says that he wants to destroy Israel, the world needs to take it seriously," Bush said in an interview with German weekly Bild am Sonntag. "What Ahmadinejad also means is that if he is ready to destroy one country, then he would also be ready to destroy others. This is a threat that needs to be dealt with." Ahmadinejad has said Israel should be "wiped off the map."
While reiterating that all options for stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons were on the table, Bush said he believed a diplomatic solution was possible if the international community worked hard and remained united.