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February 28, 2025
This month’s newsletter features a report with recommendations for how an aggressively-implemented export control policy can support the new administration’s objectives on Iran. Tehran and its proxies were weakened in 2024, and there is now an opportunity to hinder their rearmament by targeting Iran’s production of drones and missiles.
Newsletters
January 30, 2025
This month’s newsletter features an update to a running timeline of Iran’s missile milestones.
Newsletters
December 18, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an update to a report estimating how quickly Iran could enrich enough uranium to fuel a small nuclear arsenal. The update reflects data from the most recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports, which indicate that Iran’s stockpile of 60% enriched uranium is sufficient to fuel five nuclear weapons if...
Newsletters
November 20, 2024
This month’s newsletter features a report about the drone plant in Russia’s Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which manufactures Iranian-designed Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for use in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The report examines the web of relationships enabling the operation of the plant despite heavy sanctions.
Newsletters
October 30, 2024
This month’s newsletter features an analysis of Iran’s second missile attack on Israel, which was carried out at the beginning of the month. The strike largely failed to cause substantial damage and prompted an Israeli retaliatory attack on October 25.
Newsletters
September 30, 2024
This month’s newsletter features a new episode of Iran Watch Listen, a podcast by the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
Newsletters
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.