D. Iran is bordered on the north by Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, with Kazakhstan and Russia across the Caspian Sea; on the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; on the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; on the west by Iraq; and on the northwest by Turkey. Russia and Pakistan built their nuclear weapons, while the United States provides nuclear weapons for Turkey to deploy and store.

Q: Israeli leaders called the agreement a “historic mistake” and once again raised the specter of a potential military strike on Iran's nuclear sites. Which nation did Israel attack in the past to block a nuclear program?

A. Egypt

B. Iraq

C. Pakistan

D. Syria

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B. In 1981, Israeli jets destroyed a nuclear reactor under construction 10.5 miles southeast of Iraq's capital of Baghdad.

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Q: Which nation attacked and damaged the same Iraqi nuclear site few months before the Israeli raid?

A. Iran

B. Russia

C. Turkey

D. United States

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A. Iran jets hit the construction site eight days after Iraq invaded Iran and started a war that lasted eight years and killed half a million soldiers on both sides.

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Q: The agreement represents the first thaw in relations between Iran and the United States since a 1979 Islamic revolution ousted a monarch the CIA had helped put in power because of a dispute over . . .

A. Religion

B. Israel

C. Oil

D. All of the above

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C. U.S. and British agents backed the coup that overthrew Iran's prime minister who had nationalized the country's oil industry. The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was given absolute power and foreign companies regained control of the nation's huge oil reserves.

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