This month’s newsletter features an article about a China-based company that marketed engines used in the Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drone to Tehran in the early days of the U.S.-Iran war. The company is connected to a family of companies headquartered in Xiamen, China, that had previously been implicated in supplying the same drone engines to the Russian military.

This month’s newsletter features an update to a running timeline of Iran’s missile milestones. Since the last update, Iran fired missiles in two wars against Israel and the United States, launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile for the first time, suffered damage to its production facilities, and received repeated shipments of missile propellant ingredients from China.

This month’s newsletter aims to bring readers up to date on the status of Iran’s weapon programs one month into the war between Iran and the United States and Israel. The newsletter also features a report examining clandestine uranium enrichment scenarios should Iran retrieve part of its nuclear stockpile and make a dash for a bomb, as well as briefings on the war’s progress provided by the U.S. and Israeli militaries plus government statements and actions related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and Iranian attacks on Gulf infrastructure.

This month’s newsletter features a policy brief on Iran’s use of corporate service providers in Hong Kong and elsewhere to evade export controls and the U.S. Commerce Department’s efforts to counter it by designating certain addresses as high diversion risks. The aim is to slow Iran’s acquisition of electronic components with military applications using Hong Kong-based shell companies established with the support of these service providers.

This month’s newsletter features an update to our table that details Iran's missile arsenal, which remains one of the largest and most diverse in the Middle East despite recent losses in several rounds of fighting with Israel. Iran responded to its poor performance in those exchanges by seeking to improve the maneuverability of its missiles, including by testing a new ballistic missile reportedly guided by electro-optical seekers.

This month’s newsletter features a report about the counterproliferation lessons from the China-linked spread of a German-designed engine that powers Iran’s Shahed-136 suicide drones, as well as news about the U.S. seizure of weapon components from a ship bound to Iran from China, Iranian money laundering through the United Arab Emirates to support Hezbollah, and the use of Western-made goods by a company linked to the Iranian military’s nuclear weapons research.

This month’s newsletter features resources for understanding the state of play of Iran’s nuclear program following this year’s military strikes and U.N. sanctions snapback, as well as news about an Iranian nuclear delegation visiting a Russian weapons institute and Chinese companies supplying Iran with materials to rebuild its missile arsenal.

This month’s newsletter features an update to a timeline of milestones in Iran’s nuclear program, as well as news about Tehran’s response to the snapback of United Nations sanctions and China’s mechanisms for evading sanctions on imports of Iranian oil.

This month’s newsletter features a new episode of Iran Watch Listen that discusses emerging realities after the bombing of Iran’s nuclear program and the return of United Nations sanctions against Iran, as well as news and other resources related to the “snapback” of U.N. sanctions.