Iranian nuclear program

 

• According to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, Iran is all set to build four 1,250 MW reactors at a new power plant in Hormozgan Province. The plant is expected to generate 20,000 MW of electricity by 2041 and will cost around USD 20 billion.
• The 300 MW Darkhovin Nuclear Power Plant in the Khuzestan Province. 
• Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, with 3, 1000 MW Russian reactors and the capacity to build another 6 similar reactors. 
• Three research reactors in Tehran, Arab, and Isfahan. 
• Two uranium enrichment sites in Natanz and Fordow. 
• According to the IAEA, 5,750 kg of enriched uranium, including about 165 kg of uranium enriched up to 60% purity. 
• Uranium mines in Saghand and Gchine.
• A well-established nuclear educational infrastructure, with nuclear engineering taught at two dozen universities. 
• Sustained development of the technological and industrial front to maximize nuclear independence.

Despite religious edicts against the use of nuclear weapons and the indiscriminate nature of WMDs by the Supreme Leaders of Iran, it has remained under Western sanctions for decades and it's weapons program has been the leading source of agitation against it. 

Not helping matters any is the fact that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps has been placed under the terror watch by the West, and has been placed under sanctions. 

Furthermore, the US has retreated from the JCPOA, throwing the entire negotiations into disarray, even as the Israelis war game a preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. 

Such a strike would put Pakistan and all of the GCC at risk of a radioactive fallout, which would turn parts of the region into a dead zone for decades.

Ultimately, strategists in Tel Aviv aim at creating wholesale chaos in Iran, not dissimilar to the system of warlords in Afghanistan. 

A destabilized Iran will be disastrous for Pakistan, as well as the Middle East, as large swathes of territory go up for grabs for vying warlords. 

Afghans, Baluch, and Turkmen alike will be jostling for Power, to extend their own fiefs and their spheres of influence, even without the unrest spiraling into sectarian bloodshed. 

Very interesting!