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Iran's nuclear program began under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the 1950s as part of the U.S. Atoms for Peace initiative. In 1967, Iran established the Tehran Nuclear Research Center with a U.S.-supplied 5 MW research reactor. During the 1970s, Iran pursued ambitious plans for up to 20 nuclear power plants, but progress halted after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War. Iraq's use of chemical weapons during that war influenced Iran's post-revolution leaders to secretly revive a weapons-related nuclear program in the mid-1980s. By the 1990s, Iran was rebuilding its nuclear infrastructure: it sought a nuclear fuel cycle and covertly obtained centrifuge designs from the Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan network. Construction of the Bushehr 1000 MWe power reactor resumed with Russian help and was completed in 2011 under IAEA safeguards.
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