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Nuclear power and Iran: a long and turbulent history

2023-03-01T19:22:34.292Z


CHRONOLOGY - Iran's atomic history dates back to the 1950s when Tehran and Washington were still allies. From the Revolution of 1979, nothing was the same, with, since then, periods of acute crisis and temporary thaw.


While the war in Ukraine has captured the attention of countries around the world for a year, another major international crisis has emerged in recent months around the Iranian nuclear issue.

All Western diplomatic efforts to revive the July 2015 nuclear deal have so far failed, and meanwhile Tehran continues its enrichment activities raising fears for the worst.

The International Atomic Energy Agency announced on Tuesday February 28 that it had detected 83.7% enriched uranium particles in Iran, just below the 90% needed to produce an atomic bomb, without being able to say at this stage. whether this threshold has been reached accidentally or intentionally.

On the same day, a senior official of the United States Department of Defense, Colin Kahl, declared that the "breakout time", that is to say the time necessary to acquire enough fissile material to produce a nuclear bomb once the decision taken, was now “about 12 days” against…

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Source: lefigaro

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