The Place of Provisional Application of the Additional Protocol to NPT in the Iranian Legal System

A treaty or a part of it may be applied provisionally before its entry into force, if it is so provided or if the negotiating states have in some other manner so agreed. On 12 September 2003, IAEA Board of Governors adopted a resolution about the application of the NPT safeguards agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In paragraph 6 of the resolution, IAEA requests Iran to work with the Secretariat promptly and unconditionally, to sign, ratify and fully implement the additional protocol as a confidence-building measure, henceforth to act in accordance with the additional protocol. Iran agreed to sign the additional protocol, and has provisionally applied it. The current issue has been studied in the constitutional law of Iran.