Why are Iranian technicians devoting so much energy to developing a ballistic missile warhead that can carry a nuclear warhead?

And Iran and Kuwait, which has traditionally been suspicious of Teheran's motives, recently signed a contract for Iranian technicians to extinguish 60 of the oil well fires set by retreating Iraqi troops.

Iranian technicians with 'yellow cake' uranium.

The agency has also asked Iran to explain evidence that a Russian weapons expert helped Iranian technicians to master synchronised high-explosive detonations.

Iranian nuclear technicians in protective wear.

Even today, Iranian technicians fly to Vienna and agency experts go to Iran to lend a hand.

After nearly fifty years, there were still almost no Iranian technicians in the industry.

Iranian technicians, however, were able to quickly replace the centrifuges and the report concluded that uranium enrichment was likely only briefly disrupted.

From 2004, alarmed by the invasion of neighbouring Iraq, those officials say Iranian technicians pursued only design work and computer modelling to reduce the chances of being detected.

Arasp Kazemian is an Iranian IT technician, the CEO of ezaban and one of the members of International Association of Webmasters and Designers.