Electricity production from nuclear sources (% of total)_

Event_Log

1. 012006First UN Security Council sanctionsAssociation

   UNSC Resolution 1737 imposes the first multilateral sanctions over Iran's nuclear program, targeting proliferation-sensitive trade and assets.

   Why this link: Nuclear power's share of Iran's electricity generation was exactly 0% every year from 1990 through 2010, then rose to 0.14% (2011), 0.73% (2012), 1.73% (2013) and peaked near 2.4% (2017-2018). The real driver of this shift is the Russian-built Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (originally begun by the German firm Kraftwerk Union in 1975, halted by the 1979 revolution and war damage, completed under a 1990s Russia-Iran contract) reaching criticality and grid connection in 2011 -- a specific milestone that is NOT itself a dated row in this project's timeline/iran.csv or timeline/global.csv (a genuine gap). This row exists only to flag an ironic juxtaposition: Bushehr's long-delayed completion landed squarely in the middle of an escalating multilateral sanctions campaign targeting Iran's broader nuclear program, of which Bushehr's civilian reactor is legally and technically a separate track from the enrichment activity the sanctions actually targeted.

   Caveat: relationship_type is coded 'context' and confidence kept at the floor (1) deliberately -- there is no demonstrated causal link between the cited 2006 UNSC sanctions resolution and Bushehr's 2011 completion; if anything, the broader sanctions campaign is more plausibly associated with the plant's repeated delays over the 2000s than with its eventual completion. This row documents a real, dateable, chart-visible milestone honestly without implying a causal story the data doesn't support.

   Lag: n/a -- deliberately not a causal claimSource: Wikipedia — International sanctions against Iran (cross-check chronology skeleton)