Iran: ISIS Reports
2010
Supplement to Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock
David Albright and Christina Walrond March 3, 2010
IAEA Report on Iran: Enrichment at Natanz improving; entire LEU tank moved to PFEP ; no progress on weaponization February 18, 2010
French Court Delays Decision over Extradition of Majid Kakavand February 17, 2010
Busting the Members at the Core of Iran’s Smuggling Networks for Nuclear, Missile, and Conventional Military Goods*
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Former Iranian Ambassador Arrested in Britain for Allegedly Assisting Iran-Directed Smuggling Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Inventive U.S. Sting Operation Catches Iran-Based Military Equipment Smuggler
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Middleman Majid Kakavand Arrested for Allegedly Directing Malaysia-Based Iranian Illicit Procurement Scheme
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Arrest Made in Germany of Core Iranian Procurement Agent
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel Stricker February 16, 2010
Iran’s Gas Centrifuge Program: Taking Stock
David Albright and Christina Walrond February 11, 2010
Iran’s enrichment for the Tehran Research Reactor: Update
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 9, 2010
Iran’s recent statements about production of fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor: A quick review
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 8, 2010
Questions and Answers regarding Iranian document: “Outlook for special neutron-related activities over the next 4 years” January 5, 2010
2009
Iran’s Uranium Stockpile Dwindling
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire December 30, 2009
The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program (Updated for December 15, 2009)
David Albright and Christina Walrond December 15, 2009
Documents Assessing the Organizational Structure of FEDAT December 14, 2009
Farsi and English Versions of Document on Neutron Initiator December 14, 2009
New Document Reopens Question on Whether Iran’s Nuclear Weaponization Work Continued Past 2003 December 14, 2009
Further Comments Regarding the BAS Article on Fordow
David Albright and Paul Brannan December 4, 2009
Critique of Recent Bulletin of Atomic Scientists article on the Fordow Enrichment Plant
David Albright and Paul Brannan November 30, 2009
New Satellite Image Further Narrows Fordow Construction Start Date
Paul Brannan November 18, 2009
IAEA Report on Iran: Fordow enrichment plant at “advanced stage of construction;” decline in number of P1 centrifuges enriching but P1 centrifuge efficiency increases; discovery of previously unknown stock of heavy water
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 16, 2009
Satellite Imagery Narrows Qom Enrichment Facility Construction Start Date
Paul Brannan November 5, 2009
A Smuggler’s Use of the U.S. Financial System to Receive Illegal Payments from Iran
Andrea Scheel Stricker October 23, 2009
Update: Smuggler Previously Convicted of Aircraft Export Control Violations; Disguised Company As a Larger Operation
Andrea Scheel Stricker October 23, 2009
Decision Reached on Vanaki Case: Landgericht Finds Defendant Guilty, Issues Suspended Sentence
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
The Trials of the German-Iranian Trader Mohsen Vanaki: The German Federal Intelligence Service Assesses that Iran Likely Has a Nuclear Weapons Program
David Albright and Christina Walrond October 23, 2009
Technical Note: Annual Future Low-Enriched Uranium Fuel Requirements for the Tehran Research Reactor
David Albright October 7, 2009
Timeline 1967-1993: Argentine Low-Enriched Uranium at the Tehran Research Reactor
Christina Walrond October 7, 2009
Excerpts from Internal IAEA Document on Alleged Iranian Nuclear Weaponization October 2, 2009
Qom Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Site in Iran May Have Been Re-purposed Tunnel Facility
Paul Brannan September 29, 2009
Suspected Qom Enrichment Plant Site Imagery Overlay by Ogle Earth September 28, 2009
New Satellite Imagery of Suspected Gas Centrifuge Site Near Qom, Iran September 27, 2009
Satellite Imagery of Two Possible Sites of the Qom Enrichment Facility in Iran September 25, 2009
U.S. statements regarding the disclosure of the Qom enrichment plant September 25, 2009
What is Venezuela Up To? Chavez’s Latest Efforts to Purchase Nuclear Technology are Cause for Concern
Andrea Scheel September 22, 2009
Natanz Enrichment Plant: How to Measure Progress
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire September 1, 2009
ISIS Analysis of the August 2009 IAEA Report on Iran: Centrifuges increase; Rate of LEU production steady; progress on inspection requests at Arak and Natanz; no progress on possible military dimensions
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire August 28, 2009
Update on the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in Iran August 25, 2009
Mysteries Deepen Over Status of Arak Reactor Project
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Robert Kelley August 11, 2009
A Smuggler’s Procurement of Nuclear Dual-Use Pressure Transducers for Iran
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel July 14, 2009
Misconceptions about Iran’s Nuclear Program
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire July 8, 2009
IAEA Report on Iran: Centrifuge and LEU increases; access to Arak reactor denied; no progress on outstanding issues
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire June 5, 2009
Iran’s Procurement of U.S. Military Aircraft Parts: Two case studies in illicit trade
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel May 21, 2009
Video Tour of Iranian Nuclear Sites April 10, 2009
Nuclear Weapon Breakout Scenarios: Correcting the Record
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan March 18, 2009
Issue Brief on Official Statements regarding Iran March 12, 2009
Is Iran Running Out of Yellowcake?
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan February 11, 2009
A Company’s Discretion Detects Large Iranian Valve Orders by Scrutinizing Items and End-Users Instead of Lists
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 28, 2009
Nuclear Iran: Not Inevitable
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 21, 2009
How Cooperation between a Company and Government Authorities Disrupted a Sophisticated Illicit Iranian Procurement
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
Iranian Entities’ Illicit Military Procurement Networks
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Andrea Scheel January 12, 2009
2008
Has Iran Achieved a Nuclear Weapons Breakout Capability? Not Yet, But Soon.
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan December 2, 2008
IAEA Report on Iran: Enriched Uranium Output Steady; Centrifuge Numbers Expected to Increase Dramatically; Arak Reactor Verification Blocked
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan November 19, 2008
Arak Heavy Water Reactor Construction Progressing
David Albright and Paul Brannan November 13, 2008
Unprecedented Projected Nuclear Growth in the Middle East: Now is the Time to Create Effective Barriers to Proliferation
David Albright and Andrea Scheel November 12, 2008
Centrifuge Operation Significantly Improving; Gridlock on Alleged Weaponization Issues Analysis of the September 15, 2008 IAEA Report on Iran
David Albright, Paul Brannan and Jacqueline Shire September 15, 2008
Can military strikes destroy Iran’s gas centrifuge program? Probably not.
David Albright, Paul Brannan, and Jacqueline Shire August 7, 2008
May 26, 2008 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Centrifuge Operation Improving and Cooperation Lacking on Weaponization Issues Rev. 2
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire, and Paul Brannan May 29, 2008
Briefing notes from February 2008 IAEA meeting regarding Iran’s nuclear program April 11, 2008
Presidential Candidates on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Jelena Avramovic and Andrea Scheel February 22, 2008
IAEA Iran latest—A Balanced Safeguards Report
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 22, 2008
Iran Installing More Advanced Centrifuges at Natanz Pilot Enrichment Plant: Factsheet on the P-2/IR-2 Centrifuge
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire February 7, 2008
2007
November IAEA Report: Centrifuge File Not Closed; Natanz Enrichment Expands
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 15, 2007
A Witches’ Brew? Evaluating Iran’s Uranium-Enrichment Progress
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 1, 2007
Iran’s Nuclear Program: What the 2008 Presidential Candidates are Saying
Jelena Avramovic and Andrea Scheel October 17, 2007
IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Limited Progress in enrichment; controversial strategy on outstanding issues; continued defiance of UN Security Council
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright August 30, 2007
A Flawed IAEA-IRAN Agreement On Resolving Outstanding Issues
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 28, 2007
New Tunnel Construction at Mountain Adjacent to the Natanz Enrichment Complex Iran should allow IAEA inspections of tunnel facility
David Albright and Paul Brannan July 9, 2007
IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran: Iran making progress but not yet reliably operating an enrichment plant
David Albright, Jacqueline Shire and Paul Brannan May 25, 2007
ISIS Imagery Brief: Further Construction at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor
David Albright and Paul Brannan March 20, 2007
Iran’s Centrifuges: How well are they working?
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright March 15, 2007
2006
Latest IAEA Report on Iran: Continued Progress on Cascade Operations, No New Cooperation with IAEA
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire November 14, 2006
Iran’s Nuclear Program: Flawed House Intelligence Committee Report Should Be Amended or Withdrawn
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright November 9, 2006
Iran’s NPT Violations – Numerous and Possibly On-Going?
Jacqueline Shire and David Albright September 29, 2006
Iran’s Response to the EU: Confused but Sporadically Hopeful
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire September 11, 2006
Iran’s Centrifuge Program: Defiant but Delayed
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 31, 2006
IAEA Inspectors and Iran Clash Over Frequency of Inspections of Underground Facilities
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire August 23, 2006
Better Carrots, Not Centrifuges: Why Iran must halt enrichment and How the U.S. can make it happen
David Albright and Jacqueline Shire July 10, 2006
When Could Iran Get the Bomb? July 1, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: Update on Construction Activities at Arak 40 MW Heavy Water Reactor
Paul Brannan and David Albright April 21, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: New Activities at the Esfahan and Natanz Nuclear Sites in Iran
Paul Brannan and David Albright April 14, 2006
The Clock is Ticking, But How Fast?
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 27, 2006
ISIS Imagery Brief: New Satellite Image of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Complex in Iran January 13, 2006
Iran’s Next Steps: Final Tests and the Construction of a Uranium Enrichment Plant
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein January 12, 2006
2005
Iran Proposal to the EU Falls Far Short of an Acceptable Agreement May 3, 2005
Tunnel Entrance to the Underground Facilities at Natanz, Iran May 2, 2005
ISIS Imagery Brief: Kalaye Electric March 31, 2005
Iran Should Grant the IAEA Further Access to Parchin March 24, 2005
New Satellite Images Show Tunnel Construction at Esfahan Facility in Iran February 17, 2005
2004
Countdown to Showdown November 1, 2004
Parchin: Possible Nuclear Weapons-Related Site in Iran
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein September 15, 2004
ISIS Imagery Brief: Destruction at Iranian Site Raises New Questions About Iran’s Nuclear Activities June 17, 2004
The Centrifuge Connection
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 1, 2004
2003
Iran, Player or Rogue? September 1, 2003
Furor over Fuel May 1, 2003
The Iranian Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Plant at Natanz: Drawing from Commercial Satellite Images
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein March 14, 2003
Iran at a Nuclear Crossroads
David Albright February 20, 2003
2002
Iran Building Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities: International Transparency Needed
David Albright and Corey Hinderstein December 12, 2002
1995
An Iranian bomb? July 1, 1995