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April 2, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

U.S. Intelligence Punts Again on Iran Weaponization Threat

A new U.S. intelligence assessment on Iran may once again be inaccurate. Last week, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its annual worldwide threat assessment, including an updated estimate on Iran’s nuclear program and efforts to construct a nuclear device, known as “weaponization.”

February 19, 2025 | Andrea Stricker |

Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort

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January 24, 2025 | |

Ships in China Loaded With Missile Fuel Ingredients Prepare to Set Sail for Iran

Enough Fuel for Hundreds of Missiles: China continues to demonstrate its support for Iran as reports this week indicated that two Iranian ships docked in China had been loaded with...

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...

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...

November 21, 2024 | Andrea Stricker |

Amid Grim Reports on Iran’s Nuclear Advances, IAEA Member States Vote to Censure Tehran

In the wake of concerns reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) following its recent interactions with Iran and inspections of Tehran’s nuclear sites, the nuclear watchdog’s 35-member...

November 2, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Israel’s strike has Iran facing a stark nuclear option

Israel’s long-awaited retaliation against Iran has highlighted the clerical regime’s conventional military weakness and sense of strategic vulnerability. Designed to make Iran “pay” for its Oct....

October 29, 2024 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Jonathan Schanzer, Bradley Bowman, Saeed Ghasseminejad, Elizabeth Robbins

Israel’s Retaliatory Strike on Iran and What’s Ahead

October 27, 2024 | Joe Truzman |

Israel launches retaliatory strikes against Iranian military facilities

In the early morning hours of October 26, Israeli fighter jets conducted airstrikes targeting military facilities throughout Iran. This operation, codenamed “Days of Repentance” by the Israeli...

October 26, 2024 | Mark Dubowitz |

Israel Retaliates Against Iran Regime with Precision Strikes

In the early hours of October 26, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced it had successfully targeted key Iranian military and defense industry assets, including air defense systems, missile production...

October 21, 2023 | David Adesnik |

How War Could Engulf the Entire Middle East

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April 27, 2021 | Richard Goldberg, Matthew Zweig, Behnam Ben Taleblu, Saeed Ghasseminejad

Biden, Congress Should Defend Missile Sanctions Imposed on Iran

March 19, 2020 | Andrea Stricker, Richard Goldberg

New Sanctions Against Iranian Scientists Underscore Importance of IAEA Investigation in Iran

The Department of Commerce on Tuesday added five Iranian scientists to its Entity List, which consists of persons prohibited from acquiring sensitive U.S. items, such as those with dual uses in nuclear,...

November 20, 2019 | Andrea Stricker, Tzvi Kahn

Uranium Particles Found in Iran: Why it Matters

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on November 11 that it had detected the presence of man-made, refined uranium particles at “a location in Iran not disclosed to the Agency.” The...

November 20, 2019 | Olli Heinonen |

Presence of Undeclared Natural Uranium at the Turquz-Abad Nuclear Weaponization Storage Location

Overview As confirmed during a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors on November 7, 2019, the IAEA reported the finding of multiple particles of natural uranium...

September 20, 2019 | Tzvi Kahn |

Just How Many Nuclear Facilities Is Iran Hiding?

It happened again. Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – his career now hanging by a thread after a split vote in Tuesday’s election – announced that Israel had discovered yet another covert...

August 28, 2019 | Olli Heinonen |

Action must be taken to address new information on Iran’s breaches of nuclear accords

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Britain, along with the EU’s foreign policy chief, issued a statement in early June. In it, they expressed “deep concern that Iran is not meeting several...

August 19, 2019 | Tzvi Kahn |

Politics vs. Protocol: Iran’s Nuclear Archive and the IAEA’s Responsibilities

May 8, 2019 | David Albright, Olli Heinonen

Shock Wave Generator for Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program

More than a Feasibility Study.

February 25, 2019 | David Albright, Olli Heinonen, Andrea Stricker

The Iranian Nuclear Archive: Implications and Recommendations

Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Institute for Science and International Security Memo