This month’s newsletter includes a new episode of the Iran Watch Listen podcast, in which we discuss the role that the Treasury Department has played in the U.S. sanctions campaign against Iran. Our guest, a former top Treasury official, also provides insight into how the Trump administration's multilayered sanctions on Iran will complicate any effort by the incoming Biden administration to offer Iran economic relief as part of negotiations or a new agreement.

This month’s newsletter features a report on a scheme by a network of Indonesian and Iranian companies to ship components for aircraft from the United States to Iran. The analysis describes the involvement of Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries Company (IAMI), a firm linked to the Iranian Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and describes past illicit procurement efforts by Iran involving Indonesia.

This month’s newsletter features a policy brief on how the United States could construct an effective arms embargo on Iran despite the expiry of U.N.

This month’s newsletter includes a report on U.S. laws that restrict trade with and investment in Iran and punish proliferation. The report provides a chronology of U.S. sanctions over four decades, including actions taken by the U.S. Government since it withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and began a policy of “maximum pressure” on Iran. This policy has made it difficult for foreign entities to do business with Iran without exposing themselves to U.S. secondary sanctions.

This month’s newsletter includes a new Iran Watch podcast about the techniques that Iranian vessels use to transport illegal goods and evade sanctions. Two experts from the U.S. State Department explain how the United States has been working to combat these tactics. The newsletter also features analysis of efforts by two exporters to send U.S.-origin goods to key industries in Iran, in violation of sanctions.  

This month's newsletter features a report on the history and status of Iran’s ballistic missiles, with a focus on their role as a nuclear weapon delivery vehicle. The report provides an overview of Iran's current capabilities, identifies key entities supporting the effort, explains where Iran has found foreign help, and reviews efforts to hinder Tehran’s progress.  

This month's newsletter features a policy brief on how Iran's elite academic institutions support proliferation. The policy brief recommends that sanctions against such institutions, and the scientists associated with them, could be a bigger part of the U.S. pressure campaign.  

The newsletter also includes documents related to a new U.S. global maritime advisory, recent U.S. sanctions actions, and the U.S. decision to end nuclear cooperation waivers, as well as profiles of entities supporting Iranian missile procurement and news about an Iranian military bank merger. 

This month's newsletter features a timetable on the weapon potential of Iran's gas centrifuges and its growing stockpile of enriched uranium. The report estimates how soon Iran could produce the fuel for a small nuclear arsenal and concludes that the main nuclear weapon risk in Iran is work at secret sites.

This month's newsletter features a report on the U.S. indictment of Turkish state-owned Halkbank for its pivotal role in laundering billions of dollars of Iranian oil proceeds in an elaborate sanctions evasion scheme, as well as an updated timeline of Iran's missile development from 1985 to the present day.

This month's newsletter features a policy brief on the decision by three European governments to trigger the dispute resolution mechanism set forth in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in response to nuclear steps by Iran that violate the agreement.