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August 29, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an article on Iran’s new space center at Chabahar, which is expected to become operational later this year. The spaceport’s capacity to launch larger rockets than Iran’s two existing facilities will enable the country to take the next steps toward its space ambitions.
Newsletters
July 31, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an investigation of two illicit procurement agents supplying microelectronics to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) drone program. The report draws on U.S.
Newsletters
June 27, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an article analyzing recent trends in U.S. sanctions on Iran. The United States has sought to give its sanctions more bite by coordinating designations with allied countries and sanctioning companies’ broader business networks. Additionally, the U.S.
Newsletters
May 29, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an update to a running timeline of Iran’s nuclear milestones. Since the last update, some U.N. sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program expired, but European countries decided not to lift their own proliferation-related sanctions as stipulated in the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Newsletters
April 30, 2024
This month’s newsletter features analyses of Iran’s January missile attacks on Syria, Iraq, and Pakistan and its larger attack on Israel this month. The January strikes contain important hints about the strengths and limitations of Iran’s missile capabilities, which played out during the April 13 attack and the successful air defense operation to...
Newsletters
March 29, 2024
This month’s newsletter features a new episode of Iran Watch Listen, a podcast by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. We sat down with Wolf-Christian Paes, an expert on arms and maritime security, to discuss Iran’s support for the Houthi rebel group, the ways in which arms are smuggled into Yemen, and what can be done to stop the...
Newsletters
February 28, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an analysis of two recent U.S. interdiction operations off the coast of Yemen. The operations, which turned up components of ballistic and anti-ship missiles and waterborne drones, present compelling evidence that Iran continues to violate the United Nations arms embargo on the Houthis.
Newsletters
January 31, 2024
This month’s newsletter features a roundtable report on applying the lessons from North Korea to address Iran's nuclear program. The report summarizes the conclusions of an expert panel discussion convened by the Wisconsin Project and offers ideas for diplomacy, threats, sanctions, and other tools that may be used to stop or limit a nuclear...
Newsletters
December 22, 2023
This month’s newsletter features a report on the history of Iran’s nuclear program, containing an overview of nuclear infrastructure, undeclared sites, key institutions and personnel, and the foreign assistance Iran has received, as well as international sanctions and export controls targeting the nuclear program.
Newsletters
November 29, 2023
This month’s newsletter features an in-depth report on the private companies involved in Iran’s military drone program. While state-owned companies and the armed forces play leading roles in designing and building Iranian drones, privately-owned companies are making a valuable but largely overlooked contribution as well, and their role continues...