Iran's Nuclear Program

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This paper takes a look at the history of Iran, focusing on whether or not Iran's current pursuit of nuclear energy is really a quest for nuclear power and weapons of mass destruction. The paper discusses the concern that Iran may decide to hand weapons of mass destruction over to terrorists in an effort to export its revolution and looks at how big of threat Iran is to the world.

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"With these limitations in mind, the fact that Iran recognizes certain boundaries, one can have some level of comfort in Iran's political sanity amongst the global society. The world can take some ease in the fact that sanctions Iran faces will be felt. Duly, Iran feels the effects of increasing US sanctions to this day. The sanctions continued after the hostage crisis of 1979. Several US acts have since been implemented that were aimed at hurting Iran's economy. In 1996, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act outlawed any financial relations with Iran or to countries that supported Iran. In the same year, Congress passed the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA), which imposed penalties on foreign companies that invested more than 20 million dollars in Iran's oil industry (Byman)."

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• Byman, Daniel. Iran, Terrorism, and Weapons of Mass Destruction 2005 September.3-11-07<http://www.brookings.edu/views/testimony/fellows/byman20050908.pdf>
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