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International Enforcement Actions
April 16, 2025
In December, a federal court charged two men with conspiring to export U.S.-origin electronics to an Iran-based supplier of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The defendants had duped an American company into exporting electronics and technical data through Switzerland to Iran, with lethal consequences.
Articles and Reports
March 28, 2025
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 at least five bombs. Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon.
Articles and Reports
February 27, 2025
Two weeks after assuming office, President Donald Trump resumed the maximum pressure policy against Iran that his first administration pursued from 2018 to 2021. In 2025, Iran is much closer to producing a nuclear weapon, but it is vulnerable to pressure in the crucial areas of missile and drone proliferation.
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
Military
A Hong-Kong based trading company; according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, part of a procurement network operated by Iran-based Pishtazan Kavosh Gostar Boshra (PKGB) and its subsidiary, Narin Sepehr Mobin Isatis, involved in acquiring components for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Military
A Hong Kong-based front company; used to facilitate the procurement of U.S.-origin electronics for Rastafann Ertebat Engineering Company, which supports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran’s Naval Defense Missile Industry Group.