GREAT BRITAIN’S FOREIGN POLICY AND IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM

Makhir KHALIFA-ZADE

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Makhir Khalifa-zade, Ph.D., political scientist, coworker at the International Academy of Ecological Energy (Baku, Azerbaijan)

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Introduction

The United States has been keeping a keen watch on Iran’s nuclear research since the beginning of the 1990s. In so doing, Washington is claiming that under the cover of a national peaceful nuclear energy program, Tehran is steadily moving toward creating its own arsenal of nuclear weapons. As early as 1996, in response to the growing suspicions about the existence of such a program in Iran, U.S. Congress adopted the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act which envisages the introduction of harsh measures against foreign companies investing more than 20 million dollars in Iran’s energy sector.

But after the terrorist attack on the United States in September 2001 and Iran’s blacklisting as a country sponsoring terrorism, the White House toughened up its policy against Tehran even more, striving to put a complete stop to research under its nuclear program. In this respect, based on the fact that Great Britain is the U.S.’s key ally in its global policy, it is expedient to take a look at official London’s foreign policy approaches both toward Tehran’s nuclear program and toward Iran on the whole.

Research Sources in Iran’s Atomic Energy Sphere

Iran’s political elite began thinking about organizing research in this sphere back during the rule of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. This pragmatic head of state set about……………….

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