UANI

The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran

is a danger to world peace. Since 1979 the Iranian regime, most recently under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's leadership, has demonstrated increasingly threatening behavior and rhetoric towards the U.S. and the West. Iran continues to defy the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations in their attempts to monitor its nuclear activities.


	March 5, 2012 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) Preventing Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons: Constraining Its Future Nuclear Options "Without past negotiated outcomes, international pressure, sanctions, and intelligence operations, Iran would likely have nuclear weapons by now. Iran has proven vulnerable to international pressure. It now faces several inhibitions against building nuclear weapons, not least of which is fear of a military strike by Israel and perhaps others if it 'breaks out' by egregiously violating its commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and moves to produce highly enriched uranium (HEU) for nuclear weapons."
	March 1, 2012 Iran Human Rights Iran Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2011 "The execution wave that began after the June 2009 post-election protests in Iran is still going on with high frequency . According to the present report, the execution figure in 2011 was the highest reported since the beginning of 1990’s... What distinguishes the 2011 report from previous years is the dramatic increase in the number of public executions. The number of executions carried out publicly in 2011 in Iran is more than three times higher than the average in the previous years. There is no indication that the Iranian authorities’ execution machine will slow down in 2012."
	February 28, 2012 Amnesty International "We are ordered to crush you": Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran "In the wake of protests called by opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi in February 2011, the Iranian authorities have steadily cranked up repression of dissent in law and practice, launching a wave of arrests in recent months."
	February 24, 2012 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Analysis of the IAEA Iran Safeguards Report from February 24, 2012 "Production of 20% Enriched Uranium Triples; Iran Increases Number of Enriching Centrifuges at Natanz FEP by Nearly 50% and Signals an Intention to Greatly Expand the Number of Centrifuges at Both Natanz and Fordow; Advanced Centrifuge Program Appears Troubled."
	February 20, 2012 Committee to Protect Journalists Attacks on the Press in 2011: Iran Using imprisonment to silence critics, Iran is the world's worst jailer of journalists. CPJ names Iran one of the World's 10 Online Oppressors; authorities block millions of sites.
	November 8, 2011 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Analysis of the November 8, 2011 IAEA Iran Safeguards Report IAEA Details Evidence of Nuclear Weaponization Activities in Violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty; Enrichment at Natanz Continues to Stagnate; Three Cascades of IR-1 Centrifuges Installed at Fordow, Low Enriched Uranium Cylinder Moved to Fordow
	September 2, 2011 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Analysis of the IAEA Iran Safeguards Report from September 2, 2011
	May 25, 2011 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Analysis of the May 24, 2011 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran
	February 25, 2011 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Expansion of Natanz Enrichment Plant Lags; LEU Production Not as High as Expected; Iran Readying Advanced Centrifuges for Deployment?; Continued Non-Cooperation on Military Dimensions
	January 21, 2011 Federation of American Scientists Using Enrichment Capacity to Estimate Iran's Breakout Potential An assessment of Iran's growing enrichment capacity over 2010.
	December 15, 2010 Human Rights Watch We Are a Buried Generation A report on discrimination and violence against sexual minorities in Iran.
	November 23, 2010 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Shutdown of Enrichment at Natanz Result of Stuxnet Virus?; Downgrade in Role of Fordow Enrichment Site
	October 27, 2010 The Century Foundation Placing Human Rights Violations in Iran on Top of the Foreign Policy Agenda
	October 26, 2010 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) Avoiding the Legitimization of Iranian Enrichment: Better to Discourage Options Involving the Conversion of Iran’s LEU Stock into Bushehr Reactor Fuel
	October 7, 2010 Council on Foreign Relations Iran: State Sponsor of Terrorism An assessment of the Iranian regime's ties to international terrorist groups.
	September 26, 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy "What Arabs Really Think About Iran"
	September 15, 2010 Foundation for Defense of Democracies Iran's Chinese Energy Partners
	September 9, 2010 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) ISIS Analysis of New Covert Uranium Enrichment Plant Construction Claims
	September 6, 2010 Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Iran Degrading Safeguards Effectiveness; Low Enriched Uranium Production Holds Steady
	September 1, 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy The Red Line: How to Assess Progress in U.S. Iran Policy An assessment of methods for gauging the success of President Obama's policies toward Iran.
	August 30, 2010 Center for Strategic and International Studies The Dilemma of Bushehr: Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation An assessment of the nuclear proliferation risk posed by the Bushehr civilian reactor.
	August 18, 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Going Critical: Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Reactor Starts Up
	August 13, 2010 Center for Strategic and International Studies Strategic Competition With Iran: The Military Dimension An assessment of diplomatic tools available to the US toward Iran, with a focus on possible military options.
	August 4, 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ahmadinezhad's Bomb Rhetoric: Opportunities for U.S. Policy
	August 1, 2010 Washington Institute for Near East Policy The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy

March 5, 2012

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

Preventing Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons: Constraining Its Future Nuclear Options

"Without past negotiated outcomes, international pressure, sanctions, and intelligence operations, Iran would likely have nuclear weapons by now. Iran has proven vulnerable to international pressure. It now faces several inhibitions against building nuclear weapons, not least of which is fear of a military strike by Israel and perhaps others if it 'breaks out' by egregiously violating its commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and moves to produce highly enriched uranium (HEU) for nuclear weapons."

March 1, 2012

Iran Human Rights

Iran Report on the Death Penalty in Iran 2011

"The execution wave that began after the June 2009 post-election protests in Iran is still going on with high frequency . According to the present report, the execution figure in 2011 was the highest reported since the beginning of 1990’s... What distinguishes the 2011 report from previous years is the dramatic increase in the number of public executions. The number of executions carried out publicly in 2011 in Iran is more than three times higher than the average in the previous years. There is no indication that the Iranian authorities’ execution machine will slow down in 2012."

February 28, 2012

Amnesty International

"We are ordered to crush you": Expanding Repression of Dissent in Iran

"In the wake of protests called by opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi in February 2011, the Iranian authorities have steadily cranked up repression of dissent in law and practice, launching a wave of arrests in recent months."

February 24, 2012

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

ISIS Analysis of the IAEA Iran Safeguards Report from February 24, 2012

"Production of 20% Enriched Uranium Triples; Iran Increases Number of Enriching Centrifuges at Natanz FEP by Nearly 50% and Signals an Intention to Greatly Expand the Number of Centrifuges at Both Natanz and Fordow; Advanced Centrifuge Program Appears Troubled."

February 20, 2012

Committee to Protect Journalists

Attacks on the Press in 2011: Iran

Using imprisonment to silence critics, Iran is the world's worst jailer of journalists. CPJ names Iran one of the World's 10 Online Oppressors; authorities block millions of sites.

November 8, 2011

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

ISIS Analysis of the November 8, 2011 IAEA Iran Safeguards Report

IAEA Details Evidence of Nuclear Weaponization Activities in Violation of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty; Enrichment at Natanz Continues to Stagnate; Three Cascades of IR-1 Centrifuges Installed at Fordow, Low Enriched Uranium Cylinder Moved to Fordow

September 2, 2011

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

ISIS Analysis of the IAEA Iran Safeguards Report from September 2, 2011

May 25, 2011

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

ISIS Analysis of the May 24, 2011 IAEA Safeguards Report on Iran

February 25, 2011

Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS)

IAEA Iran Safeguards Report: Expansion of Natanz Enrichment Plant Lags; LEU Production Not as High as Expected; Iran Readying Advanced Centrifuges for Deployment?; Continued Non-Cooperation on Military Dimensions

January 21, 2011

Federation of American Scientists

Using Enrichment Capacity to Estimate Iran's Breakout Potential