New York, May 23 -- The 2026 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) concluded in New York on Friday without the adoption of a final substantive document, marking the "third failure in the past 16 years" to achieve consensus among member states.

Iran sharply criticized the United States and its allies following the collapse of negotiations, accusing them of attempting to "misuse the NPT Review Conference to distort reality" and divert global attention from "their own continued failure towards nuclear disarmament" and "the danger posed by the only nuclear-armed regime in the Middle East - Israel."Delivering Iran's closing statement at the 11th Session of the Review Conference, Mohammad Hassani-Nejad...