Ali Akbar Salehi

Israel’s Strike Changes Everything in Iran

We don’t know exactly how successful the raid was, but the era of diplomatic nonproliferation is over.

The Iranian Negotiating Tactic the Trump Administration Doesn’t Get

Sanctions and ‘maximum pressure’ have never made the clerical regime abandon its nuclear ambitions.

Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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Deterring Iran’s Dash to the Bomb

U.S. Officials Cold-Shoulder Iranian Offer of Nuclear Talks

Citing Iran’s “nuclear escalations,” the White House signaled on August 27 that it was unlikely to revive the defunct 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic...

Iran Could Declare Itself Nuclear Weapons State by Year’s End, Top U.S. Lawmaker Says

Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapon state by the end of the year,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, stated on August 18. The “flexibility...

Iran: The Next Nuclear Weapons State?

U.S. Intelligence Community Drops a Bombshell Regarding Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Work: An astonishing U.S. intelligence report just revealed a grim truth: The Islamic Republic of Iran may...

Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction

They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction

Washington Fails — Again — To Gauge Iran’s Nuclear Threat 

In sum, while the ODNI’s report paints a picture of a more capable Islamic Republic with an expanding nuclear program, policymakers’ motivation and ability to check this challenge will stem first and foremost from accurately understanding it.

Former Iranian Official Hints at Nuclear Weapons Program

Tehran maintains a nuclear weapons program, a former senior Iranian official appeared to suggest in an interview broadcast on February 12. Iran has crossed “all the thresholds...

Iran’s Centrifuge Manufacturing Goes Underground

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported last week that Iran is concentrating its centrifuge production equipment at two centrifuge manufacturing facilities — both likely located beneath...

The Post-Post-JCPOA World

Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?

Biden Administration Should Ascertain the Status of Iran’s Arak Reactor

The Biden administration says it wants to rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal because the accord seals off Tehran’s pathways to nuclear weapons, one of which involves plutonium. Yet the accord will not...

Iran Is More Than Persia

Ethnic Politics in the Islamic Republic

Parsing Iranian Responses to the Killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi

2020 has proven to be a tough year for the Islamic Republic of Iran. It began with the killing of its most important general and terrorist mastermind, Qassem Soleimani, and now appears to be ending...

Fakhrizadeh Assassination Underscores Iran’s Refusal to Come Clean About Nuclear Weapons Activities

The assassination last week of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh eliminated the leading source of institutional knowledge about the Tehran regime’s once-flourishing nuclear weapons program....

Bad News: Iran’s Centrifuge Assembly Plant is Going Underground

The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael M. Grossi, confirmed in an interview this week that Iran has begun replacing a key centrifuge assembly plant that a massive...

The Islamic Revolution vs. Donald Trump

Iran and Ayatollah Khamenei are more influential today than at any time since 1979.

IAEA Iran Safeguards Report Analysis

Iran Commits Multiple Violations of the Nuclear Deal, Several Non-Reversible

To Make Maximum Pressure Work, Washington Should Cancel Iran Nuclear Waivers

Iran is flouting and bypassing its nonproliferation promises. If Trump is serious about stopping an Iranian bomb, he should cancel or suspend nuclear waivers for the Fordow and Arak facilities.