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Articles and Reports
October 3, 2024
On October 1, Iran carried out a second large-scale missile attack against Israel. Although the operation differed in meaningful ways from Iran’s first missile attack on Israel in April, the result was largely the same, further underscoring some key limitations for the country's conventional missile program.
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.
Weapon Program Background Report
September 23, 2024
This page contains a catalog of Iranian ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and space launch vehicles (SLVs), with each one linked to an image. It includes guided missiles with a potential range of 300 kilometers or greater that Iran has unveiled, even if they have only been displayed as mock-ups.
Articles and Reports
September 18, 2024
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 five bombs. Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon.
Interviews and Podcasts
September 17, 2024
In this episode of Iran Watch Listen, we sat down with Hanna Notte and Jim Lamson to discuss the history of Iran and Russia’s military relationship, how it has changed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and areas where both countries might benefit from deeper cooperation in the future.
Weapon Program Background Report
September 16, 2024
In recent years, Iran has developed and deployed centrifuge models that can enrich greater amounts of uranium with fewer machines relative to its original IR-1 design. This table sets out the number of installed and operational centrifuges at Iran's enrichment sites, as well as the capacity and primary materials of each centrifuge model.
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.
Articles and Reports
August 23, 2024
The Chabahar spaceport will enable Iran to take the next steps toward its space ambitions. And although the West has long been concerned by Iran’s development of rockets for space launches, the satellites those rockets carry may eventually prove equally valuable as military assets.
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.
International Enforcement Actions
July 29, 2024
An Iranian procurement agent and his Chinese accomplice worked together to funnel electronic components to the IRGC's drone program. Then, they each went on to build supply rings of their own. A Wisconsin Project investigation sheds light on the tactics they used and how their respective networks evolved over time.