The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say that the major factor in spurring on Iran's development of nuclear weapons in the 1980s was the victory of the Revolutionary forces in Iran, that overthrew the Shah, the last one that ruled over Iran. So in 1981, after the civil war ended, Iran authorities decided to continue the development of nuclear weapons as a way to defend the sovereignty of the country. In that time, the Soviet Union decided to support Iran sending expert scientists to help Iran to develop its own research program.
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. But American colonists, who had no representation in Parliament, saw the Acts as an abuse of power. The British sent troops to America to enforce the unpopular new laws, further heightening tensions between Great Britain and the American colonies in the run-up to the American Revolutionary War.
