Joint Plan of Action

May 1, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Trump Should Oppose an Interim Nuclear Deal That Lets Iran Off the Hook

“We’ll have something without having to start dropping bombs all over the place,” President Donald Trump declared on Monday. The United States and Iran are set to meet for a fourth round...

April 26, 2025 | |

No Clear Progress at Third Session of U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks, Next Round Scheduled

Talks Continue: A third round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place on April 26 in Muscat, the capital of Oman....

April 24, 2025 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Andrea Stricker, Joe Dougherty

Iran Nuclear Program Talks

April 19, 2025 | |

U.S. and Iran Hold Second Round of Nuclear Talks in Rome

Second Round Held: A second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over the future of Tehran’s nuclear program took place in Rome on April 19. A four-hour long...

February 19, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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February 7, 2025 | |

Iran Takes Delivery of Drone Ship as Supreme Leader Downplays Potential for New Nuclear Talks With Trump Administration

New Iranian Drone Carrier Delivered: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy received its first drone carrier ship, according to Iranian state media reports on February...

April 17, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Despotic Duo

Russo-Iranian Cooperation and Threats to U.S. Interests

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

September 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg

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

April 7, 2023 | Jacob Nagel |

Iran is pushing Israel toward a multi-theater conflagration

A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only few weeks or maybe few months, alongside a substantial easing of sanctions, allowing the regime to recover economically and to continue financing and backing terrorism all over the world.

December 8, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Neither Here Nor There

Jordan and the Abraham Accords

August 18, 2022 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

Another Iran Deal? Looking Back and Looking Ahead

March 16, 2022 | Tony Badran |

Team Biden Runs the Syria Playbook on Ukraine

The administration’s horror over Putin’s war is not merely performative, but functional—in the service of realigning with Iran

February 20, 2022 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Making Sense of Iran’s Three-Pronged Nuclear Fork In The Road

US officials have deployed an impressive array of metaphors over the past 10 months – from dwindling patience, to a diminishing runway, to a closing window – to describe the Biden administration’s...

November 27, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Four things to know before today’s #ViennaTalks on the Iran nuclear deal

November 17, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

A Sign That Iran Is Still Pursuing Nukes

Iranian media have reported on the identity of the new head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear research institute.

June 14, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Lost at Sea: How Two Iranian Warships Are Testing American Mettle

The Biden administration has tried to deflect anything that could possibly derail negotiations for a new nuclear deal.

June 3, 2021 | Cameron Khansarinia, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Why America Should Hope the Regime in Iran Collapses

Advancing the collapse of the Islamic Republic will not bog the United States down into another Middle Eastern war or cost further blood and treasure. It can be done by maintaining sanctions on the Islamic Republic and its officials and by beginning a policy of maximum support of the Iranian people.

January 7, 2021 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Andrea Stricker

Tehran’s 20 Percent Enrichment is Designed to Extort Washington

Iran has informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it is now enriching uranium to 20 percent purity at its underground Fordow enrichment facility. The move is Tehran’s most egregious violation...