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A Islamic regime has been in power in Iran since revolution back in 1979.Trough its revolutionary guards and the ministary of intelligence and contacts with militants exteremitists groups outside Iran,this regime has become one of the wordls primary state sponsor of terrorism.The regime in Tehran had supported and directed militant groups like Hezbollah in Libanon to be able to make 1983 attacks on the US embassy and a Jewish Community Center in Argentina.In June 1996 another Iranian sponsored terrorist act accured.A fuel truck blew up outside Khober Towers in Dahran,Saudia Arabia, The place where US military personnel were living.To ” achieve what Saddam dreamed of ” a nuclear weapons capability is the lastest issue which this extremist regime is concerning about, and which worry other nations in The meddle East.The regime in Tehran constantly lies about to being in charge of weapons of mass destruction despite all the facts about their facilites.Where are these activities located in the country? and how does the regime in Tehran explain its intention to become a nuclear power and other nations reactions about such a program in one of the world most important strategic places.
Isfahan, the nuclear technology center in Iran, and IranÒs second major city is located 260 miles south of Tehran. Most of the facilities at this center are Chinese-supplied,minireactors,subcritical assemblies, and a fuel fabrication laboratory.It employs three thousand scientists and because of its size counts as home to nuclear weapons designer.Another Nuclear site is The Bushehr plant,located in southwestern Iran, on the Persian Gulf.This site is probably the best known of the Iranian nuclear sites ,the reason to that is the assistance Russia gives to Iran to build up this siteproject which has been subject to discuss between US and Russia.But the key component of Iranian nuclear weapon program is located in the city of Arak,150 miles south of Tehran and Natanz a small mountain town 10 miles farther south,well known for its fruit orchards.Those sites include heavy-water facilities ,water production plants and a 40-megawatt reactor(IR-40).Regarding to Gholamreza Aghazadeh,The head of atomic organization in Iran,”the basic reactor design was completed by the end of 2003″ .Iranian officials claims that this center is intended for medical researches but the fact is that it will allow Iran to produce weapon-grade plutonium ,enough for one or two nuclear weapons annually.The Natanz project is the biggest ongoing project among Iranian Facilites.It includes about 25 acres territory all sourrounded by barbed wire.It contains approximately Thousand gas centrifuges to enrich uranium. A variety of other sites and installations spread across the country make up the rest of IranÒs nuclear infrastructures.
Activities are going on all over the country.Front companies which produce material for the program are spread all over the world.Russia,China and several Latin Americans countries assist Iran to achieve its goal.United state has employed high-tech intelligence systems to monitor developments in the Islamic republic.Another part of these activities
is the way Iranian regime buy all the materials for the program.Chinese assistance has been a big part to sell, build and maintain Iranian facilities.Several times has United state been able to block the attempts to sale nuclear goods to Iran.Richard T. Kennedy ,The U.S. ambassador to the IAEA(The International Atomic Organization) has managed to persuade attempts from ArgentinaÒs regime to sell nuclear fuel fabrication equipments to Iran.Officials of the China National Nuclear Corporation have unsuccessfully tried to tell trade journals that their country Ò ” Could not supply” Ò reactors to Iran for technical reasons.United States has even tried to stop Iranians from buying facilities by arranging purchases of all materials which was actually aimed to be sold to Iran. This success did not end the regime in Tehran quest for nuclear weapons technology. Intelligence US officials have also presented information about the same subject to Russian foreign ministeries to get the government of Russia to cut or reduce their nuclear help to the Islamic regime.Many other ways have also been discussed among U.S. and other countries to stop nations who help Iran on its way to achieve nuclear-related technology.But the U.S. administration attempts could not prevent China or Russia from dealing with Iran,