After Iran’s drone attack on Israel in retaliation for the offensive on its Consulate in Damascus, all eyes are on Iran and its nuclear program. The fear in the West is that the Iranian regime’s objective is to obtain an atomic bomb.

You have to go back to the late 50s to go to the origin of the iranian nuclear program. It was then that the United States, in its developmental zeal, signed a nuclear cooperation agreement. But everything began to go wrong, among other things, with the Islamic revolution of ’79.

During that time, Iran began to flirt with non-peaceful uses. A few years later, in the 2000s, International concern began when clandestine Iranian centers were discovered that produced enriched uranium and plutonium, basic elements for atomic weapons.

The radical president at the time, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was involved in a tug-of-war with the West and years of sanctions. With his successor in 2015 there was a historic containment pact under the misgivings of Saudi Arabia or Israel, an agreement that has proven to have failed.

As has been seen, Iran has turned a deaf ear and continues to enrich uranium. Tehran has accumulated enough to build several weapons, but Western intelligence believes it has not yet begun a formal weapons program.