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Articles by Mohammadreza Giveh
The New Nuclear Research Reactor at Esfahan
The New Nuclear Research Reactor at Esfahan by Maliheh Bitaraf, Mohammadreza Giveh, and the Good ISIS Team February 24, 2025 Download PDF In April 2022, as part of announcing a comprehensive program to deepen nuclear industrial self-sufficiency, the Islamic Republic of Iran announced it was going to build a new 10 megawatt-thermal (MWth) research reactor, aka IR-10 reactor, at the Esfahan Nuclear Technology Center (INTC). Site preparation started in late October 2022.
The Islamic Republic and its Axis of Resistance’s Chemical Weapons Threat
The Islamic Republic and its Axis of Resistance’s Chemical Weapons Threat by Mohammadreza Giveh and David Albright November 27, 2024 Download PDF With deep-seeded tensions in the Middle East and the current volatile dynamics, a potential trigger for worsening and widening warfare is receiving too little attention. The risk has increased of lethal and incapacitating pharmaceutical-based agents (PBAs) being dispersed by Iranian proxies or agents using easy-to-operate drones.
The Islamic Republic’s Work on Pharmaceutical Based Agents
The Islamic Republic’s Work on Pharmaceutical Based Agents by Mohammadreza Giveh and the Good ISIS Team November 25, 2024 Download PDF The rise of the widespread use of easy-to-operate drones has increased the risk of lethal and incapacitating pharmaceutical-based chemical weapons being dispersed in this new manner. The most immediate concern in the Middle East is that the Islamic Republic or its proxies would use such weapons.
SPND Legal and Budget Analysis
SPND Legal and Budget Analysis by Mohammadreza Giveh October 23, 2024 Download PDF SPND is the best-known successor organization of Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the early 2000s, which was codenamed the Amad Plan.
Iran’s Likely Violations of Section T: Computer Modeling Relevant to Nuclear Weapons Development | Institute for Science and International Security
Iran’s Likely Violations of Section T: Computer Modeling Relevant to Nuclear Weapons Development by Mohammadreza Giveh, Mark Gorwitz, and David Albright September 10, 2024 Iran has developed elaborate cover stories for its nuclear weapons development activities, as seen in the Nuclear Archive and elsewhere. 1 It is a strategy that evolved from the Amad Plan, Iran’s crash nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s.
The Islamic Republic’s Work on Pharmaceutical Based Agents
The rise of the widespread use of easy-to-operate drones has increased the risk of lethal and incapacitating pharmaceutical-based chemical weapons being dispersed in this new manner. The most immediate concern in the Middle East is that the Islamic Republic or its proxies would use such weapons.
Darkhovin Nuclear Power Reactor: Another Blemish on Iran’s Safeguards Compliance
The Iranian regime has ambitious plans to build nuclear power reactors and is taking many steps to empower its domestic industries to become capable of building them, despite the many challenges. It has one operational power reactor today, the Bushehr 1 reactor, supplied mostly by Russia, and has plans to build several more, some from Russia and some by itself. But even the ones it plans to build itself have depended on foreign assistance.
SPND Legal and Budget Analysis
SPND is the best-known successor organization of Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the early 2000s, which was codenamed the Amad Plan. The organization is known by its Farsi initials SPND or SEPAND, translated into English as “Organization of Defense Innovation and Research.” 1 It is believed to be in charge of preserving and advancing the Iranian regime’s nuclear weaponization efforts, i.e. the process of making the nuclear weapon itself.
Case Study: Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Tier One Common High Priority Items Exported from China to Russia
Highlights This case study is an assessment of roughly one month of trade data scrutinizing Chinese exports to Russia of Tier 1 goods valued at roughly $40 millions of dollars. Tier 1 goods are the most important items Russia needs to manufacture and build the precision-guided weapon systems critical to waging war in Ukraine. They are further characterized by the lack of Russia’s domestic production of them and limited global manufacturers, requiring Russia to import them.
Memo on Reported Destruction of Secret Workshop in 2020
On March 24, 2024, Iran International reported that an “industrial production workshop […] belonging to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) was deliberately set on fire” in the summer of 2020. 1 The incident was not reported publicly at the time, and Iran International cites judicial and intelligence documents provided by a hacking group as their source.
Iran’s Likely Violations of Section T: Computer Modeling Relevant to Nuclear Weapons Development
Iran has developed elaborate cover stories for its nuclear weapons development activities, as seen in the Nuclear Archive and elsewhere. 1 It is a strategy that evolved from the Amad Plan, Iran’s crash nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s. Iran conducts work that continues Iran’s nuclear weapons development by calling it civilian or non-nuclear military work.
Iran's nuclear weapons program, centrifuges, IAEA
IRAN’S THREATMemo: The Reported Destruction of Secret Workshop in 2020 Published 3 April 2024 On March 24, 2024, Iran International reported that an “industrial production workshop […] belonging to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) was deliberately set on fire” in the summer of 2020. 1 The incident was not reported publicly at the time, and Iran International cites judicial and intelligence documents provided by a hacking group as their source.
Darkhovin Nuclear Power Reactor: Another Blemish on Iran’s Safeguards Compliance
Darkhovin Nuclear Power Reactor: Another Blemish on Iran’s Safeguards Compliance by David Albright and Mohammadreza Giveh March 25, 2024 The Iranian regime has ambitious plans to build nuclear power reactors and is taking many steps to empower its domestic industries to become capable of building them, despite the many challenges. It has one operational power reactor today, the Bushehr 1 reactor, supplied mostly by Russia, and has plans to build several more, some from Russia and some by itself.
The Iran Threat Geiger Counter: Extreme Danger Grows
The Iran Threat Geiger Counter: Extreme Danger Grows by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso, and Mohammadreza Giveh April 8, 2025 Download PDF Since February 2024, the date of the last edition of the Geiger Counter, the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program has worsened significantly.
Russia Withdraws Ratification of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
In an unprecedented move, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially rescinded Russia’s ratification of the treaty banning nuclear test explosions anywhere in the world Nov. 2. Russia’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and the U.S. failure to ratify the treaty “created an imbalance” between the two countries, “which is unacceptable in the current international situation,” said the Kremlin in a statement that day.
Memo on Reported Destruction of Secret Workshop in 2020
Memo on Reported Destruction of Secret Workshop in 2020 by David Albright, Sarah Burkhard, Spencer Faragasso, and Mohammadreza Giveh April 2, 2024 Download PDF On March 24, 2024, Iran International reported that an “industrial production workshop […] belonging to the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) was deliberately set on fire” in the summer of 2020.
Israeli Arrow System Downs First Missiles in Combat
December 2023 By Mohammadreza Giveh Israel used its Arrow-3 missile defense system to shoot down a ballistic missile, marking the system’s first combat interception. The ballistic missile was launched at Israel from the direction of the Red Sea on Nov. 9, presumably by Houthi militants in Yemen. A version of the Arrow-3 missile defense system that Israel on November 9 used to shoot down a ballistic missile, marking the system’s first combat interception.
A New U.S. Strategy Against WMD Threats
November 2023 By Mohammadreza Giveh The U.S. Defense Department has released a new strategy for countering weapons of mass destruction (WMD) around the world, arguing that the threats from nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons have increased and changed significantly since 2014. A Chinese H-6K bomber, which has nuclear strike capability, arrives at Zhuhai Air Show Center in Guangdong Province in 2022. China is aggressively expanding its nuclear arsenal.
Concerns Mount Over Possible New Nuclear Tests
October 2023 By Mohammadreza Giveh New construction at nuclear test facilities in China, Russia, and the United States has heightened global apprehension that one or more of these nations potentially could resume nuclear testing. These satellite images show improvements to the Russian nuclear test site at Novaya Zemlya. Improvements are also reported to be underway at sites in China and the United States.
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