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Articles and Reports
August 23, 2024
The Chabahar spaceport will enable Iran to take the next steps toward its space ambitions. And although the West has long been concerned by Iran’s development of rockets for space launches, the satellites those rockets carry may eventually prove equally valuable as military assets.
International Enforcement Actions
July 29, 2024
An Iranian procurement agent and his Chinese accomplice worked together to funnel electronic components to the IRGC's drone program. Then, they each went on to build supply rings of their own. A Wisconsin Project investigation sheds light on the tactics they used and how their respective networks evolved over time.
Weapon Program Background Report
June 27, 2024
In recent years, Iran has developed and deployed centrifuge models that can enrich greater amounts of uranium with fewer machines relative to its original IR-1 design. This table sets out the number of installed and operational centrifuges at Iran's enrichment sites, as well as the capacity and primary materials of each centrifuge model.
Articles and Reports
June 27, 2024
How quickly could Iran get enough fissile material for a small nuclear arsenal? This timetable estimates how quickly Iran could amass enough weapons-grade uranium for five bombs. Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon.
Iranian Entities
Military
An Iranian procurement agent; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, oversees a transnational procurement network supporting Iran's
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Self-Sufficiency Jihad Organization (ASF SSJO) and its production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Military
A subsidiary of the Iranian Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL); according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, part of a network that has facilitated and financed the sale of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Russia on behalf of MODAFL.
Suppliers
Military
A United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based trading company; facilitated the shipment of thousands of servomotors from Hongkong Himark Electron Model Limited to Pishgam Electronic Safeh Company for use in Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles.
Military
A Hong Kong-based electronics distributor; exported more than one million dollars' worth of servomotors to Pishgam Electronic Safeh Company in Iran for use in Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles.