Office of the Director of National Intelligence

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 3, 2025 | Johanna Yang, Ari Ben Am, Rohannah Shrestha 

Iran Conducts Cyberattacks to Terrorize Israelis

The Iranian hacking group Handala last week breached an Israeli electronics firm that operates panic button systems in schools, causing red alert sirens to trigger in at least 20 kindergartens across Israel...

January 22, 2025 | Max Lesser, Mason Krusch

Russia Exploits LA Fires to Sow Discord and Promote False Claims 

Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, leveled the false claim that U.S. prison inmates were being used as forced labor to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Her comments were part...

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 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 15, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

Report Confirms Israel Struck Active Iranian Nuclear Weapon Site

Iran was actively conducting research that would support construction of a nuclear device — a process known as weaponization — at a site the Israeli Air Force destroyed during its October 25 counterstrike...

November 7, 2024 | Jack Burnham, Craig Singleton

China’s Careful Reaction to U.S. Election Masks Deepening Rift

China’s restrained response to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory sharply contrasts with its months-long campaign to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral process and sow societal discord....

October 29, 2024 | David R. Shedd, Ivana Stradner

The Covert War for American Minds

How Russia, China, and Iran Seek to Spread Disinformation and Chaos in the United States

September 16, 2024 | |

Iran Launches Satellite Into Orbit Using Domestic Missile

The United States expressed concern on September 14 after Iran successfully launched a satellite into space using a rocket developed by its widely sanctioned Islamic Revolutionary...

August 30, 2024 | |

IAEA Reports Iran Increased Stockpiles of Near Weapons-Grade Uranium

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released two new reports on Iran’s nuclear advances and non-compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) on August 29....

August 26, 2024 | |

Iranian Cyber-Spying Group Posed as Tech Support to Target U.S. Political Officials’ WhatsApp Accounts

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, reported on August 23 that it blocked a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts used by Iranian cyber-attackers to target officials...

August 20, 2024 | |

Iran Could Declare Itself Nuclear Weapons State by Year’s End, Top U.S. Lawmaker Says

Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapon state by the end of the year,” Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, stated on August 18. The “flexibility...

August 12, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

Iran: The Next Nuclear Weapons State?

U.S. Intelligence Community Drops a Bombshell Regarding Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Work: An astonishing U.S. intelligence report just revealed a grim truth: The Islamic Republic of Iran may...

August 10, 2024 | |

U.S. Intelligence Assessment Drops Claim That Iran ‘Not Currently Undertaking’ Nuclear Weapons Development

The U.S. intelligence community no longer assesses that Iran has paused work on the development of nuclear weapons, according to the latest Office of the Director of National Intelligence...

April 17, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Listening to our enemies

Our intelligence agencies must be allowed to do that

April 7, 2024 | Cleo Paskal |

‘U.S. threat assessment report has several blind spots’

The challenge is that the report needs more strategic and integrated intelligence to appropriately describe today’s threats to the United States and its partners and allies, says Jack Gaines.

April 3, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Tehran’s weapons of mass distraction

They conceal Tehran’s development of weapons of mass destruction

March 28, 2024 | Andrea Stricker, Behnam Ben Taleblu

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.

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...

January 29, 2024 | |

Iran Bolsters Missile Capacity With Satellite Launches

Iran announced on January 28 that it successfully launched into space three satellites that use technology similar to that of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The achievement...