Iran's nuclear program began under the shah, not Khomeini

Iran's nuclear program has roots in the late 1950s, when the country was ruled by the pro-American shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Paweł Rakowski's book "Wojna Irańska. Walka o hegemonię w Zatoce Perskiej" covers the history of atomic energy research in Iran. The program thus developed long before Khomeini's Islamic Revolution and remains a key point of contention between Washington and Tehran.