Iran signs an agreement for cooperation with the United States for nuclear energy development with civil purposes, in the “Atoms for Peace” project, in 1957. Thanks to the agreement, signed between Washington and an Iran governed by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, very close to the West and friendly with Israel, the university of the capital works for the first time with a nuclear reactor.
In 1970, Iran even signs the Nuclear Non -Proliferation Treaty and Cooperate with the International Agency, in a decade marked by project development, always at the University of Teerão. But the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which deposed Xá, forced the suspension of the projects. The war with Iraq between 1980 and 1988 aggravated the situation, because it consumed several resources and was a priority for Ayatollah.
In the nineties, Iran, hostile power to the US, with whom he has no diplomatic relations, who rejects the existence of Israel, recovers from the years of the war with Iraq. Tehran approaches regional powers that vie for regional influences with Washington, such as China and India and buy them weaponry and technology, which then perfecting over the years. These are years of apprehension, from Washington to Telavive, through the European bloc.
Or plan amad
It is that, in the late eighties, Israel had created the so -called “Amad Plan,” whose objective was the development of at least five nuclear weapons. But despite weaponry development, Iran needs uranium and plutonium.
The efforts made by the Islamic Republic are eventually denounced by opponents of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, who opposes the Government of Ayatollah. In 2002, group reveals the existence of nuclear facilities in Natanz and Arak – where Iranians develop heavy water. This means that they could create nuclear bombs by enriching uranium and plutonium.
A year later, the United States, under the administration of Bush Filho, invade Iraq and Tehran approaches the International Atomic Energia Agency. Several nuclear facilities are declared and Tehran says he has suspended the Amad plan. But there are still unknown facilities that continue to enrich uranium, such as Fordow’s underground unity, which would be discovered in 2009.
O 2015 Vienna Pact
The following years are crisis between Iran and the West. In 2011, an AIEA-Choni report says there is reasons for concern, as Tehran would once again be closer to developing nuclear weapons. In 2015, after years of negotiations, there is white smoke in the Austrian capital. Iranians sign the so -called global joint action plan with the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Iranians face the future with some hope, because the signing of the Vienna Pact allows some relief to sanctions that strangle a knee economy.
In 2018, Donald Trump decides, during the first term, to abandon, unilaterally, the treaty signed with Iran, to the joy of Benjamin Netanyahu. For many years, the Prime Minister of Israel says that the Iranian Islamic government cannot have in its power the atomic weapon, as it has an existential threat to the State of Israel.
2025 – New negotiations and conflict with Iran
Iran responds with a distance from the West, the UN nuclear agency and the most German security council group. And continues to enrich uranium, at levels above the agreed in Vienna. There are no understandings during Joe Biden’s mandate and it is only with Trump’s return to the White House, which begin new conversations, so that they will return to the path of cooperation, in a spirit of a pact abandoned by the same president with whom Iranians should negotiate.
Negotiations began in April, but were interrupted after Israeli attacks in June, the retaliation of the Iranians and the intervention of the United States Army.
