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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.
Articles and Reports
November 8, 2024
The Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ), an entity overseeing an industrial campus in Russia’s Tatarstan region, operates a drone plant under contract with the Russian military to manufacture Iranian-designed Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for use in Russia’s war against Ukraine.
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.
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.
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.
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.