News about Iran

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.

Estimates of Israel's stockpile range from 90 to 400 nuclear warheads, and the country is believed to possess a nuclear triad of delivery options: by F-15 and F-16 fighters, by Dolphin-class submarine-launched cruise missiles, and by the Jericho series of intermediate to intercontinental range ballistic missiles.

Iran and Russia are strategic allies and form an axis in the Caucasus alongside Armenia. Iran and Russia are also military allies in the conflicts in Syria and Iraq and partners in Afghanistan and post-Soviet Central Asia. The Russian Federation is also the chief supplier of arms and weaponry to Iran.