Bushehr, which is located around 750km (465 miles) south of Tehran, is Iran's only commercial nuclear power plant. It is run by uranium produced in Russia. Bushehr, home to around 223,504 people, has two large nuclear reactors – one of them still under construction.

Non-Arab Middle Eastern countries such as Turkey, Israel and Iran are also subject to important migration dynamics.

Iran is not known to currently possess weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and has signed treaties repudiating the possession of WMD including the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).