U.S. Cold War gift: Iran nuclear plant
Now cited as evidence of weapons activity, facility was provided to shah’s government click click
The Tehran Research Reactor represents a little-known aspect of the international uproar over the country’s alleged weapons program. Not only did the U.S. provide the reactor in the 1960s as part of a Cold War strategy, America also supplied the weapons-grade uranium needed to power the facility–fuel that remains in Iran and could be used to help make nuclear arms.
