Library Documents on Iran's Missile Program
March 15, 2011
From an initial investigation, strategic weapons were found on-board the "Victoria"-many 60 and 120 mm mortar shells, and C-704 anti-ship missiles. The C-704 shore-to-sea missiles had a range of 35 kilometers and its likely use along the Gaza Strip endangers not only infrastructure near the Gaza sea, but Israeli shore cities in close proximity...
February 17, 2011
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Treasury today designated Bank Refah for providing financial services to the Iranian Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) and the Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). In recent years, Bank Refah has facilitated millions of dollars of weapons-related purchases by MODAFL. These...
February 10, 2011
This statement goes into extensive detail about numerous state and non-state actors, crosscutting political, economic, and military developments and transnational trends, all of which constitute our nation's strategic and tactical landscape. Although I believe that counterterrorism, counterproliferation, and counterintelligence are at the...
February 8, 2011
As required by section 721 of the Fiscal Year 1997 Intelligence authorization Act, the following are country summaries of acquisition activities (solicitations, negotiations, contracts, and deliveries) related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and advanced conventional weapons (ACW) that occurred from 1 January through 31 December 2010. This...
February 1, 2011
WASHINGTON - Milad Jafari, 36, a citizen and resident of Iran has been indicted for illegally exporting and attempting to export specialized metals from the United States through companies in Turkey to several entities in Iran, including some entities that have been sanctioned for involvement in ballistic missile activities.
February 1, 2011
Treasury Targets Network of Iranian, Turkish Nationals Operating in Tehran and Istanbul
January 13, 2011
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the designation of 24 shipping companies affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and two entities that are subordinates of Iran's Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO). Today's actions build on Treasury's efforts to expose the financial and corporate...
January 8, 2011
This State Department report assesses U.S. adherence to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, as well as an assessment of the adherence of other nations to such conventions, regimes, and treaties, including the Missile Technology Control Regime, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Treaty on Open Skies, Nuclear...
November 5, 2010
On 12 June 2009, the Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1874 (2009), in which it requested the Secretary-General to establish a Panel of Experts mandated to gather, examine and analyse information regarding the implementation of the measures imposed by the Council in its resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009), in particular incidents...
November 1, 2010
Aiming to ensure the exclusively peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear programme and fulfillment of its international commitments, the Security Council has to date adopted four resolutions imposing binding measures : resolutions 1737 (2006), 1747 (2007), 1803 (2008) and 1929 (2010). Article 25 of the UN Charter obligates Member...