Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear program has the United States and the international community up in arms, even though Tehran insists it is only interested in the process as a means of providing energy. The country’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950s, and after the overthrow of the shah, the Islamic regime actually stopped it temporarily. But the government soon resumed the program, and start-up for the country’s first nuclear power plant, at Bushehr, was in August 2010. Here’s a look at the nuclear club the West fears Iran wishes to join.
At left, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at the Natanz nuclear-enrichment facility, 180 miles south of Tehran.
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