It does not. The Iranians started their nuke program during the Iraq-Iran War - Why.
That's not even close to being true, that is when nuclear power was being denied to them via the voiding of previous contracts signed. Them having 'the bomb' was quite acceptable as long as the US was their master and the Shaw was their puppet.
Nuclear program of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
joint stock company Eurodif operating a
uranium enrichment plant in France was formed in 1973 by France, Belgium, Spain and Sweden. In 1975 Sweden's 10% share in Eurodif went to Iran as a result of an arrangement between France and Iran. The French government subsidiary company
Cogéma and the Iranian Government established the Sofidif (
Société franco–iranienne pour l'enrichissement de l'uranium par diffusion gazeuse) enterprise with 60% and 40% shares, respectively. In turn, Sofidif acquired a 25% share in Eurodif, which gave Iran its 10% share of Eurodif. Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi lent 1 billion dollars (and another 180 million dollars in 1977) for the construction of the Eurodif factory, to have the right of buying 10% of the production of the site.
"President
Gerald Ford signed a directive in 1976 offering
Tehran the chance to buy and operate a U.S.-built reprocessing facility for extracting
plutonium from nuclear reactor fuel. The deal was for a complete 'nuclear fuel cycle'."
[38] At the time,
Richard Cheney was the White House Chief of Staff, and
Donald Rumsfeld was the Secretary of Defense. The Ford strategy paper said the "introduction of nuclear power will both provide for the growing needs of Iran's economy and free remaining oil reserves for export or conversion to petrochemicals."
Then-
United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger recalled in 2005, "I don't think the issue of proliferation came up."
[38] However, a 1974 CIA proliferation assessment stated "If [the Shah] is alive in the mid-1980s ... and if other countries [particularly India] have proceeded with weapons development we have no doubt Iran will follow suit."
[39]
The Shah also signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with South Africa under which Iranian oil money financed the development of South African fuel enrichment technology using a novel "jet nozzle" process, in return for assured supplies of South African (and Namibian) enriched uranium.
[40]
[edit] Post-revolution, 1979–1989
The
1979 Revolution saw the overthrow
[41] of the
Shah.
[42][43] During the Revolution, Iranian students took over the U.S. Embassy,
[44] and
held U.S. diplomats there hostage for 444 days lasting from 4 November 1979, to 20 January 1981.
[45] In Iran, anti-American sentiment was fed by the U.S. installation and support for the repressive
[46] Shah and "feared"
SAVAK,
[47] and continuing resentment over U.S. support to the
coup that overthrew Iran's democratically elected government and installed the Shah.
[48] The United States considered the
hostage-taking as an outrage violating the
sovereignty of diplomatic compounds.
[49]
After the revolution, much nuclear cooperation with Iran was cut off. The United States stopped fulfilling contracts it had with Iran, while France, Germany, and other countries also reduced their cooperation with Iran due to pressure from the United States. Iran argues these experiences show the unreliability of working with the West on nuclear issues and place the burden on the West to restore its credibility.
