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Weapon Program Background Report
January 29, 2025
This timeline contains Iran's major missile accomplishments since 1984. Over the last year, Iran has unveiled the Fattah hypersonic missile; launched missile attacks against Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan; and placed several satellites into orbit using domestically designed rockets. Meanwhile, UN restrictions on Iran's ballistic missile program...
Articles and Reports
December 18, 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.
Weapon Program Background Report
December 18, 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
November 8, 2024
The Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ), an entity overseeing an industrial campus in Russia’s Tatarstan region, operates a drone plant under contract with the Russian military to manufacture Iranian-designed Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for use in Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Iranian Entities

Missile, Military
A subsidiary of Iran's Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) that manufactures electronic components for weapons systems; obtained electronics from the United States in violation of U.S. export controls, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Missile
An Iran-based electronics company; linked by the U.N. Panel of Experts on Yemen to cruise missile components used by the Houthi rebels.

Suppliers

Missile
A Turkey-based affiliate of Buy Best Electronic Pars Company, an Iran-based electronics supplier controlled by Saeed Hamidi Javar that has facilitated procurement for Iran's ballistic missile program.
Missile
An employee of Beijing Shiny Nights Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Unconventional Weapon Programs

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