Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action

February 13, 2024 | |

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...

February 7, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Andrea Stricker

Exploiting America’s Declining Pressure: Iran’s Nuclear Escalation Over Time

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January 24, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

No better enemy

America empowers its adversaries

November 30, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Biden’s Imaginary Iran

Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?

November 20, 2023 | David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso, Andrea Stricker

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...

November 15, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief 

Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...

November 14, 2023 | |

10 Things to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program

The Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to the destruction of the United States and Israel, posing conventional threats worldwide via its terrorist proxies. Back home, Tehran is increasingly poised to...

October 26, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Moving the Money

Understanding the Iranian Regime's Access to Money Around the World and How They Use It to Support Terrorism

October 25, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror

October 22, 2023 | Andrea Stricker, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Biden must reverse course on letting Iran sanctions lapse — or watch weapons pour into Gaza and Russia

Washington and its European allies just declined to prevent the expiration of UN missile and drone penalties against Iran. That decision will likely spur more missile and drone testing, production and...

October 18, 2023 | |

Lax U.S. Sanctions Enforcement Yields Windfall for Iran’s Terrorist Proxies

Iran’s foreign minister on October 18 called for an embargo of Israel by oil-producing nations to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also urged...

October 13, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Lax Sanctions Enforcement Has Yielded a Windfall for Iran

The regime has made much more on oil sales since Biden took office.

October 10, 2023 | Tzvi Kahn |

US Policy Emboldened Iran and Hamas; It’s Time to Fight Back

It was Ali Khamenei who foreshadowed what was to come. “The Zionist regime is dying,” said Iran’s supreme leader on X (formerly Twitter), on October 4 — three days before Hamas attacked...

October 10, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

The clock is ticking on UN missile and drone prohibitions against Iran 

The Hamas terrorist attacks Israel, backed by Iran, underscore a grim deadline: The restrictions from the United Nations on Tehran’s testing, transfer, and procurement of...

October 8, 2023 | |

Hamas Takes Israelis and Foreign Nationals Hostage

Hamas has reportedly seized as many as 100 people as hostages, including Israelis, Americans, and other foreign nationals, since its war with Israel began on October 7. Secretary...

September 28, 2023 | Saeed Ghasseminejad |

The Monetary Value of Relaxed Oil Sanctions Enforcement by the Biden Administration

“U.S. officials privately acknowledge they’ve gradually relaxed some enforcement of sanctions on Iranian oil sales,” Bloomberg News revealed last month. The dollar value of this sanctions relief...

September 21, 2023 | David Adesnik |

Israel’s Less-Than-Secret War Against the Iranian Nuclear Program

A new book details the tactical success of Mossad’s efforts against the Islamic Republic.

September 14, 2023 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s Escalating Threats: Assessing U.S. Policy Toward Iran’s Malign Activities

September 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg

A Dangerous Strategy: Examining the Biden Administration’s Failures on Iran

September 8, 2023 | Olli Heinonen, Andrea Stricker

Twenty Years Later, Iran Remains In Non-Compliance With Its Nuclear Nonproliferation Obligations 

Sept. 12 will mark the 20th anniversary of the first resolution criticizing Iran by the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) board of governors.