Timeline of Iran's nuclear program

Iran's Indigenously Built ICBM It successfully developed the Shahab-3, albeit with initial North Korean and Russian assistance,[14] and is believed to have produced at least several tens of these missiles.

Israel is widely believed to have nuclear weapons, though it has neither acknowledged nor denied having a nuclear arsenal. After Israel launched its war against Iran vowing to take out the country's nuclear program before it had the ability to produce weapons, fresh scrutiny has fallen on the country's own arsenal.

The NPT, which Iran ratified in 1970, guarantees countries the right to pursue civilian nuclear power in return for requiring them to forego atomic weapons and cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.