Iran Nuclear Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 1

Iran Nuclear Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 1

1. When were the international economic sanctions lifted off Iran as it completed the necessary steps in a deal to restrict its nuclear program?
(a) 10th December 2016
(b) 16th January 2016 ✓

(c) 23rd July 2015
(d) 1st March 2016

2. Which Iranian head of state became the first to visit Pakistan in a span of 14 years?
(a) Saeed Jalili
(b) Mohsen Rezaee
(c) Hassan Rouhani ✓
(d) Mohammad.B.Ghaiibaf

3. US intelligence predicted in ______ that Iran could have the key ingredients for a nuclear weapon by 2015.
(a) August 2005 ✓
(b) August 2008
(c) August 2010
(d) August 2012

4. Iran's nuclear program began as a result of the Cold War alliance between the United States and the shah of Iran_____
(a) Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ✓
(b) Ayatollah Khomeini
(c) Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
(d) Ali Hosseini Khamenei

5. On _______ Iranian President Mohammad Khatami declared that his government intended to extract uranium from a mine at Saghand, in the province of Yazd.
(a) February 9th, 2003 ✓
(b) February 9th, 2005
(c) February 5th, 2007
(d) February 8th, 2009

6. Iran reported that mining operations at Gchine started in _______.
(a) December 2003
(b) July 2004 ✓
(c) January 2005
(d) July 2005

7. In ______ Iranian authorities admitted to producing yellowcake at a milling plant in Ardakan in Yazd Province.
(a) February 2003 ✓
(b) April 2004
(c) August 2003
(d) December 2003

8. Iran's centrifuge program was launched in _____ in Tehran
(a) 1985 ✓
(b) 1990
(c) 1988
(d) 1987

9. In 1997, Iran moved its centrifuge development effort to the Kalaye Electric Company in _____.
(a) Mashhad
(b) Tehran  ✓
(c) Isfahan
(d) Tabriz

10. Iran took control of the Bushehr reactor from Russia in _______.
(a) October 2011
(b) September 2013 ✓
(c) April 2010
(d) December 2015

11. On ______ Iran also announced plans to build a 40 megawatt thermal heavy water research reactor, called the Iran Nuclear Research Reactor (IR-40)
(a) June 5, 2005
(b) August 5, 2004
(c) May 5, 2003 ✓
(d) December 10, 2003


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