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Interviews and Podcasts
May 22, 2025
In this episode of Iran Watch Listen, we sat down with Behnam Ben Taleblu and Michael Eisenstadt to discuss the opportunities and pitfalls facing the second Trump administration as it makes a last-ditch effort to prevent Iran’s nuclear program from crossing the threshold to a bomb.
Newsletters
April 24, 2025
This month’s newsletter features a case study of a U.S. export enforcement action against a network that procured U.S.-origin electronics for drones used to kill three U.S. service members in the 2024 “Tower-22” attack in Jordan. The study illustrates how two men duped an American company into exporting electronics and technical data through...
International Enforcement Actions
April 16, 2025
In December, a federal court charged two men with conspiring to export U.S.-origin electronics to an Iran-based supplier of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The defendants had duped an American company into exporting electronics and technical data through Switzerland to Iran, with lethal consequences.
Newsletters
March 28, 2025
This month’s newsletter features updates to a report estimating how quickly Iran could enrich enough uranium to fuel a small nuclear arsenal and a table accounting for Iran’s deployed centrifuges.
Articles and Reports
March 28, 2025
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 at least five bombs. Once it has the enriched uranium, however, it could take at least several months to turn it into a working weapon.
Weapon Program Background Report
March 21, 2025
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
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.
Articles and Reports
February 27, 2025
Two weeks after assuming office, President Donald Trump resumed the maximum pressure policy against Iran that his first administration pursued from 2018 to 2021. In 2025, Iran is much closer to producing a nuclear weapon, but it is vulnerable to pressure in the crucial areas of missile and drone proliferation.
Speeches and Testimony
February 20, 2025
Wisconsin Project Executive Director Valerie Lincy was interviewed about Iran’s nuclear program on the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Nukes of Hazard podcast.
Newsletters
January 30, 2025
This month’s newsletter features an update to a running timeline of Iran’s missile milestones.