Medium-range ballistic missile

September 10, 2024 | Ryan Brobst, Bradley Bowman, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Don’t over-concentrate US forces in the Middle East

US military bases in the Persian Gulf confront two problems. The first is the growing missile and drone capabilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The other is that some Arab partners restrict the Pentagon’s...

August 4, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

The Islamic Republic prepares to avenge Ismail Haniyeh

“Bloodlust” is a term cascading across the Iranian media space this week: “Bloodlust is commanded,” declared Jam-e Jam newspaper, connected to Iran’s state-sanctioned...

March 8, 2022 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

New Iran Nuclear Deal? Same Old Missile Problems.

The U.S. and Europe ignore Iranian missile tech developments at their own peril.

January 13, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Andrew Gabel, Mikhael Smits 

Iran attack highlights US missile defense vulnerability

The Iranian regime fired 16 ballistic missiles into Iraq on Jan. 8 at bases housing American troops. With no ballistic missile interceptors in range, U.S. forces could only watch and wait for impact....

January 24, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu

Iranian Ballistic Missile Tests Since the Nuclear Deal – 2.0

FDD Research Memo

November 9, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Iran’s New Missile Cap Offer Is a Total Sham

Co-authored by Richard Goldberg. Last week, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

October 4, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

What You Should Know About Tehran’s Latest Missile Test

Following the Iranian Regime’s recent unveiling of a previously unseen medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and their claims to have conducted a successful flight-test of the missile, many...

July 31, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Making Sense of Iran’s Latest Satellite-Launch Vehicle Test

Late last week, Iran formally inaugurated the Imam Khomeini Space Launch Center by conducting the second test of its “Simorgh” rocke...

June 29, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Should Anyone Care about the Iranian Missile Strikes?

On Sunday June 18, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Aerospace Force (IRGC-AF)...

August 25, 2014 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Don’t Forget Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

Last month, the P5+1 and Iran arranged for an extension of Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), the interim nuclear deal that was agreed to in Geneva in late 2013 and implemented in January of this year....