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TEHRAN, June 23-- The National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of Iran's Parliament on Tuesday approved a plan to stop Iran's "voluntary" implementation of the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Stopping implementation of the Additional Protocol, which was approved at the meeting of the parliament's commission this afternoon (on Tuesday), can also affect the future of the Iranian nuclear deal," Sara Fallahi, a member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Parliament, told Fars. In a reaction to the recent approval of an anti-Iran resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Iranian Parliament has urged the government to reconsider the implementation of the Additional Protocol. The IAEA's 35-nation board of governors passed a resolution on Friday, calling on Iran to cooperate fully with it and let the agency access two locations inside the country. The board "calls on Iran to fully cooperate with the agency and satisfy the agency's requests without any further delay, including by providing prompt access to the locations specified by the agency," according to the text of the resolution submitted by France, Germany and Britain and adopted by a vote of 25 to two with seven abstentions, the IAEA said on its website. By Tuesday vote of the Parliament's commision to the withdrawal of Iran from implementation of the Additional Protocol, the Iranian Parliament gets one step closer to the final approval of the plan, which if ratified will oblige the government of President Hassan Rouhani to drop the commitments concerning the protocol. | 
