A look at the history of Iran's nuclear programme

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00:00It's Iran's only operating nuclear power plant.

00:04With a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, Bushihar nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran has

00:09been connected to the country's power grid since 2011.

00:14Iran also has a handful of nuclear research facilities and sites it uses to enrich uranium.

00:22The country is now enriching uranium up to 60% fissile purity, according to the UN watchdog.

00:29It's well above the limit authorised in the 2015 deal Iran made with six world powers.

00:36So how did Iran get here?

00:39Back in 2015, the deal, dubbed the JCPOA, placed restrictions on Iran's nuclear work in return

00:45for sanctions relief.

00:48The country was only allowed up to 300 kilograms of uranium, enriched up to 3.67%.

00:56But in 2018, Donald Trump pulled the US out of the deal and reimposed sanctions.

01:02Iran then resumed its enrichment activities.

01:05In 2022, the IAEA announced that Tehran was enriching uranium to up to 60% at the Fordow site.

01:13So how quickly could Iran make nuclear weapons?

01:16For use in a weapon, uranium needs to be enriched to roughly 90%.

01:21According to US officials, Iran could turn its uranium into one bomb in as little as a week.

01:28But these officials believe it would take Tehran between a year to a year and a half to build

01:32a nuclear weapon.

01:34Iran has insisted that its nuclear activities are peaceful.

01:38But last year, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog described the country's uranium enrichment

01:43is very worrisome.

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