HISTORY 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ruhollah Khomeini, Pressurized Heavy-Water Reactor, David Albright
10 Dec 2016
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Post-ww2 iran: oil and geography leads iran to become a zone of competition between allies and. Germany, and then between soviets and the uk. Cia and mi6 backed military coup to remove mosaddegh: 1953-1979 - shah mohammad reza phlavi - had been shah since 1941, but coup of pm put him more into power; he made close ties with the us. Close ties with us, coallition of radicals start islamic revolution in 1979. Nuclear program under the shah: 1967: us atoms for peace program gets iran a research reactor. Iran already had energy; they wanted atomic energy for prestige: 1974: aeoi - massive program to build 20+ nuclear power plants, european and us companies competed for contracts in iran; iran"s big program needed foreign contractors. Rossing uranium [which iran still holds shares in today much to the dismay of many])
