Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction
They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
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.
Op-eds
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...
Flash Briefs
Exploiting America’s Declining Pressure: Iran’s Nuclear Escalation Over Time
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Visuals
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report — November 2023
For the second time in two years, America finds itself providing military support to a friend in the wake of aggression. Within days of Hamas’ attack on Israel, American munitions began flowing to the...
Op-eds
Iran’s Nuclear Program Expands Despite U.S. Sanctions Relief
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, reported new data on Wednesday indicating Tehran has expanded its nuclear program since September. The Islamic Republic’s nuclear...
Policy Briefs
How Iran’s Regime Is Threatened by Its Clerics
A new wrinkle in the Islamic Republic’s continuing political crisis
Op-eds
Ambiguity Surrounds Iran’s Purported Nuclear Concessions
Latest Developments The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said today that Iran’s ostensible nuclear concessions over the weekend are still subject to negotiations. Rafael...
Flash Briefs
The Quiet War between Israel and Iran
Iran's Hegemonic Drive
Op-eds
It’s Time to Respond to Iran’s Bad-Faith Negotiations
The Islamic Republic has flouted its nonproliferation obligations and is moving closer to the nuclear threshold.
Op-eds
The IAEA’s Iran NPT Safeguards Report – May 2022
Excerpt “Unless and until Iran provides technically credible explanations…the Agency cannot confirm the correctness and completeness of Iran’s declarations under its Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement.” -International...
Op-eds
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...
Policy Briefs
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the IAEA’s New Iran Agreement
The agency’s head has vowed not to close a four-year-old investigation of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear work. Does he mean it this time?
Op-eds
The Post-Post-JCPOA World
Is a nuclear Iran something Republicans must now simply accept?
Op-eds
Iran’s Nuclear Extortion Continues
Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI), recently proclaimed that the Islamic Republic is ahead of schedule on a parliamentary mandate to enrich 120 kg of uranium to 20 percent...
Insights
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...
Policy Briefs
Iran
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...
Op-eds
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....
Insights
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...