Part 1: Nuclear Program
Iran is a country led by a great president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Iran is islamic
state in the middle east region. When the other middle eastern countries
are Trying to shut the eye of a series of events Carried out by Israel and
other Zionist, iran is a country That dared to oppose them. Why Iran can
do this?
Lets check this out from multiple sources ^ _ ^.
there has been much speculation on the cause of the attack iran,
on the one hand
there is the support of the attack, and on the other handsome
are against such attacks. From some sources say that the origin of the attacks committed by Israel is because Iran began developing nuclear weapons.
Most of the "world"
know that nuclear development is prohibited unless conducted by the U.S. and Israel. Maybe some already know that they are the holder of the world today.
Iran’s nuclear program is one of the most polarizing issues in
one of the world’s most volatile regions. While American and European officials
believe Tehran is planning to build nuclear weapons, Iran’s leadership says
that its goal in developing a nuclear program is to generate electricity
without dipping into the oil supply it prefers to sell abroad, and to provide
fuel for medical reactors.
Iran and
the West have been at odds over its nuclear program for years. But the dispute
has picked up steam since November 2011, with new findings by international
inspectors, tougher sanctions by the United States and Europe, threats by Iran
to shut the Strait of
Hormuz to oil shipments and Israel signaled
increasing readiness to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Fears of
an attack on Iran have driven up oil prices and represent a threat to the
already fragile state of a global economy still reeling from a sovereign
debt crisis in Europe. At the same time, the Iranians have
acutely felt the squeeze from a round of sanctions aimed at getting Iran
to freeze its uranium enrichment program.
In March
2012, the global powers dealing with the program announced that they had
accepted an Iranian offer to resume negotiations that broke off
in stalemate more than a year before. Talks were set to begin in Turkey in
mid-April, with both sides jostling for advantage in the days running up to the
negotiations.
American
and European diplomats said that one demand from the Obama administration and
its allies would
be a halt in the production of uranium fuel that is considered just a few steps
from bomb grade, and a stop to the shipment of existing stockpiles
of that fuel out of the country.
A Nuclear
‘Trigger’
Starting
in early 2008, the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency
repeatedly accused Iran of dragging its feet in addressing “possible military
dimensions” of its nuclear program. Tehran has declared that all of the
evidence gathered by the agency — mostly from the intelligence agencies of
member countries, and some from its own inspectors — are fabrications.
An
I.A.E.A. report issued in February 2011 listed seven outstanding questions
about work Iran apparently conducted on warhead design. The documents in the
hands of the agency raise questions about work on how to turn uranium into bomb
fuel, how to cast conventional explosives in a shape that can trigger a nuclear
blast, how to make detonators, generate neutrons to spur a chain reaction,
measure detonation waves and make nose-cones for missiles.
The May
report gave new details for all seven of the categories of allegations. The
disclosure about the atomic trigger centered on a rare material — uranium
deuteride, a form of the element made with deuterium, or heavy hydrogen.
Nuclear experts say China and Pakistan appear to have used the material as a
kind of atomic sparkplug.
The report
said it had asked Iran about evidence of “experiments involving the explosive
compression of uranium deuteride to produce a short burst of neutrons” — the
speeding particles that split atoms in two in a surge of nuclear
energy. In a bomb, an initial burst of neutrons is needed to help
initiate a rapid chain reaction.
Harold M.
Agnew, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory, said the
compression of uranium deuteride suggested work on an atomic trigger.
The
agency’s disclosure about Iran’s alleged use of uranium deuteride also suggests
another possible connection between Tehran’s program and Abdul Qadeer Khan, the
rogue Pakistani engineer who sold nuclear information.
A famous
photograph of Dr. Khan, whom Pakistan has released from house arrest in
Islamabad, shows him in front of the schematic diagram of an atom bomb on a
blackboard. A pointer to the bomb’s center is labeled uranium deuteride.
The May
report also gave fresh charges on the design of missile warheads. Documentary
evidence, it said, suggested that Iran had conducted “studies involving the
removal of the conventional high explosive payload from the warhead of the
Shahab-3 missile and replace it with a spherical nuclear payload.”
The
Shahab-3 is one of Iran’s deadliest weapons, standing 56 feet tall. In parades,
Iran has draped them with banners reading, “Wipe Israel off the map.”
Iran’s
Nuclear History
Iran’s
first nuclear program began in the 1960s under the shah. It made little
progress, and was abandoned after the 1979 revolution, which brought to power
the hard-line Islamic regime. In the mid-1990s, a new effort began, raising
suspicions in Washington and elsewhere. Iran insisted that it was living up to
its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but in 2002, an exile group
obtained documents revealing a clandestine program. Faced with the likelihood
of international sanctions, the government of Mohammad
Khatami agreed in 2003 to suspend work on uranium enrichment
and allow a stepped-up level of inspections by the International Atomic Energy
Agency while continuing negotiations with Britain, France and Germany.
In August
2005, Mr. Khatami, a relative moderate, was succeeded as president by Mr. Ahmadinejad,
a hard-line conservative. The following January, Iran announced that it would
resume enrichment work, leading the three European nations to break off their
long-running talks. Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran has the right to
enrich uranium, but the atomic energy association called for the program to be
halted until questions about the earlier, secret program were resolved.
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