US Department of State Spokesperson Tommy Pigott also added that "the inability of some NPT States Parties to take Iran’s threat to global nonproliferation seriously will be addressed by the United States in its continuing engagements"

There was no consensus among the 191 parties to the NPT, the third failure in a row at a conference reviewing the treaty.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations accused the United States of pushing nuclear nonproliferation talks towards collapse through what it described as “excessive demands”.