What Makes Tehran Tick?

Options for Israel and the USA to Prevent a Nuclear-Armed Iran

Private Viewpoints

May 9, 2006

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Iran Policy Committee

This document seeks to answer three questions: 1) What is the nature of the Iranian regime? 2) What difference does the regime’s character make as it travels down the road to a nuclear-armed Iran? 3) And what is the international community prepared to do about the Iranian regime, given its nature, capability, and intent to acquire the bomb?

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Iran's Nuclear Timetable: The Weapon Potential

Updated April 2, 2021

With its known capacity, Iran cannot make a sudden dash to produce the fuel for a small nuclear arsenal of five implosion-type warheads – the goal Iran set for itself when it began to work on nuclear weapons decades ago. Instead, the main nuclear weapon risk in Iran is secret sites, which Iran has relied on to carry out illicit work in the past.

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