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Iran: Reza Shah
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Iran's interest in nuclear technology dates back to the U.S. Atoms for Peace program. In the 1950s, the Shah initiated Iran's nuclear research program and developed an ambitious plan to produce 23,000MW from nuclear power by the end of the century. Early progress was not steady, and the nuclear program was stalled by the Islamic revolution in 1979, then the eight-year war with Iraq through most of the 1980s. The program was revived later in the decade, when strategic interests began to drive the nuclear program. Under the Khomeini regime, Iran's nuclear program steadily grew on all fronts and stages of the nuclear fuel cycle, with a particular emphasis on developing and strengthening indigenous capabilities.
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, began his reign in 1941, succeeding his father, Reza Khan, to the throne. In a 1953 power struggle with his prime minister, the Shah gained American support to prevent nationalization of Iran's oil industry. In return for assuring the U.S. a steady supply of oil, the Shah received economic and military aid from eight American presidents.
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The seventh century Arab-Muslim conquest of Iran was followed with invasions by the Seljuk Turks and the Mongols. Iran underwent something of a revival under the Safavid dynasty (1502-1736), the most prominent figure of which was Shah Abbas, who expelled the Uzbeks and Ottomans from Persia. The conqueror Nadir Shah and his successors were followed by the Zand dynasty, founded by Karim Khan, and later the Qajar (1795-1925) and the Pahlavi dynasties (1925-1979).
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Iran nationalized its oil industry in the early 1950s, but a CIA coup soon overthrew the democratic prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, installing instead the authoritarian pro-US Shah, Reza Pahlavi. Iranian oil remains a key issue today, long after the Shah was ousted by the Islamic revolution of 1989. Chinese and European companies have recently signed big oil contracts, while US companies dream of regime change. This section analyzes how oil and foreign intervention have always been closely interwoven.
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The Shah fled to Rome from Iran before the U.S.-backed coup against Mossadeq in August 1953, during which pro-Shah army forces arrested the Prime Minister. The Shah returned soon thereafter. A few years later, AIOC was renamed British Petroleum, better known today as BP.
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Gholam-Reza Ansari told Russian television Vesti-24 on Friday that Iran had launched a legal investigation of the British sailors. "They will be tried if there is enough evidence of guilt," Ansari was quoted by IRNA as saying.
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