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March 20, 2025 | |

Trump Reportedly Gives Iran Two-Month Deadline to Negotiate Nuclear Deal

Letter Seeks Direct Negotiations With Iran: President Donald Trump reportedly gave Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two months to reach a nuclear deal with the United...

March 17, 2025 | |

‘All Options are on the Table’: U.S. Reaffirms Call for Iran’s Complete Nuclear Disarmament

Top Trump Official Adamant on Iranian Nuclear Weapons: U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz said on March 16, “all options are on the table to ensure” that Iran does not...

March 13, 2025 | |

Russia and China to Discuss Iranian Nuclear Program Following Joint Naval Drills

UK Threatens Sanctions Snapback on Iran: Deputy foreign ministers from Russia and China will meet in Beijing on March 14 to discuss Iran’s nuclear program. The meeting comes...

March 7, 2025 | |

‘I Hope You’re Going To Negotiate’: Trump Sends Letter to Iranian Supreme Leader Urging Talks on Nuclear Program

Letter to Khamenei: President Donald Trump sent a letter on March 5 to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expressing his desire to reach a deal on Iran’s nuclear program. “I’ve...

February 27, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Potential Leaps Ahead of IAEA Meeting

Iran’s major strides in its march towards a nuclear weapon hang ominously over the meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors in Vienna on March 3-7. The nuclear monitoring...

February 6, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran May Be on the Verge of a Nuclear Weapon; Will Israel and the United States Act?

US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu just met in Washington — and not a moment too soon. A team of scientists in Iran is reportedly working to short-cut Tehran’s route to nuclear weapons in case the Iranian leadership orders their complete construction.

February 3, 2025 | Jacob Nagel |

Netanyahu must push Trump to take real action on Iran

Any resolution must address all three components of Iran’s nuclear program: fissile materials, weaponization, and delivery systems.

January 23, 2025 | |

‘Pressing the Gas Pedal’: UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Warns of Iran’s Accelerating Enrichment

‘Pressing the Gas Pedal’: The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, said on Wednesday that Iran is “pressing the gas pedal” on enriching...

January 22, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

How Trump Can Counter Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions

If hard-line diplomacy doesn’t work, he’ll likely need to let Israel bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.

January 22, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Russia Touts Illicit Nuclear Work in Iran

Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted about Russian civil nuclear work in Iran that runs afoul of U.S. law, but which the Biden administration failed to penalize, at a press conference in Moscow on...

January 22, 2025 | Jacob Nagel |

Israel must prepare for confrontation with Iran after Trump inauguration

Until all facilities and capabilities are dismantled by Iran, willingly or by external forces, Trump administration must return to the “maximum pressure” program.

January 16, 2025 | |

‘Not Under Pressure or Sanctions’: Tehran and Key European Powers Discuss Resuming Nuclear Talks

Iran and E3 Hold Talks: Diplomats from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom — known as the E3 — met with Iranian officials in Geneva on January 14 to discuss the possibility...

January 3, 2025 | |

Biden Weighs Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities Should Tehran Dash for Bomb

U.S. National Security Advisor Presents Plans for Strikes on Iran: President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, presented options last month for a U.S. attack...

January 3, 2025 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Shadow War

A review of Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar, “Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East” (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

December 25, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

The Curious Case of Iran’s Destroyed Nuclear Site

On October 26 2024, the day after Israel conducted a massive counterstrike against Iranian missile and military sites, open-source sleuths noticed something strange: A building was unexpectedly missing...

December 9, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

How to Bring Back Maximum Pressure on Iran

At the end of 2020, the Islamic Republic of Iran was down to just $4 billion in accessible foreign exchange reserves. Its terrorist mastermind, Qassem Solemani, and the godfather of its nuclear weapons...

December 6, 2024 | |

‘Shorten The Timeline’: Iran Touts Sending Heaviest Payload to Space as Nuclear Watchdogs Send Enrichment Warnings

Iran Launches Payload Into Space: Iran claimed that its space program successfully launched its heaviest payload yet into space on December 6, including a device capable of...

November 27, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Why is Iran’s FM talking about ‘advanced centrifuges’?

Iran views the nuclear program as more than the sum of its parts.

November 22, 2024 | |

Russia Supplies Air Defense to North Korea as Kim Jong Un Threatens Nuclear War

Russia Bolstering North Korea’s Outdated Air Defenses: Russia provided air defense missiles and related equipment to North Korea, South Korean National Security Advisor Shin Won-shik...

November 21, 2024 | |

‘It Is Possible’: Israel’s New Defense Minister Signals Readiness for Military Action Against Iranian Nuclear Ambitions

Clear Priorities, Military Readiness: In his first interview as Israel’s new defense minister, Israel Katz declared on November 21 that preventing a nuclear-armed Iran is Jerusalem’s top priority...