The funeral ceremony took place with the presence of Mohammad Eslami, Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), alongside former heads of the organization, leading ...

It was late in 1973 when Akbar Etemad got the call -- the shah wanted to discuss ways to launch a nuclear program that would cement Iran's place among the world's modern nations. Mohammad Reza Shah ...

The funeral, held in the courtyard of Bu-Ali Sina University Mosque, drew a wide array of mourners including senior national and local officials, military representatives, university faculty, and ...

Akbar Etemad, the shah’s chief atomic energy adviser, tells Maziar Bahari about the unlikely birth o By Maziar Bahari Dr Akbar Etemad is the father of Iran’s nuclear programme. After graduating from ...

While the man Israeli intelligence recently outed as the “father” of Iran’s nuclear program –Mohsen Fakhrizadeh—belongs to Iran’s repressive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the man traditionally ...

PARIS: Akbar Etemad, Iran’s former vice-prime minister, in an interview with daily Le Figaro here has said that Tehran “may very well have a nuclear military capacity”. Etemad, who was in charge of ...

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David Patrikarakos tells the remarkable story of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, which beg By David Patrikarakos In the beginning there was the atom bomb and the world-changing destruction ...