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1 week ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Orde F. Kittrie |Andrea Stricker |Behnam Ben Taleblu
The United States and Iran are set to hold landmark talks on April 12, President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week, just weeks after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused the idea. The watershed event follows the president’s letter to Khamenei in early March in which he posed a stark ultimatum to Tehran: negotiate a deal within two months that removes the nuclear threat, or face punishing U.S. sanctions and possibly strikes on the regime’s nuclear facilities.
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1 month ago | 
fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Orde F. Kittrie |Andrea Stricker |Behnam Ben Taleblu
The threat of a nuclear-armed Iran remains the defining security challenge of our time. In “Iran’s Nuclear Disarmament: The Only Deal That Protects U.S. and Allied Security,” Orde Kittrie, Andrea Stricker, and Behnam Ben Taleblu outline a strategy to achieve the permanent dismantlement of Tehran’s nuclear weapons enterprise.
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2 months ago | 
fdd.org | Daniel Ackerman |Andrea Stricker
Executive SummaryA secret team of Iranian scientists is working to shorten the country’s route to nuclear weapons, according to current and former U.S. officials. This intelligence was collected during President Joe Biden’s final months in office, then relayed to the incoming national security team under President Donald Trump.
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2 months ago | 
fdd.org | Reagan Easter |Sophia Epley |Sinan Ciddi |Andrea Stricker
The United States dealt Russian efforts to evade international sanctions a significant blow by ordering the American bank J.P. Morgan to freeze $2 billion of Russian funds destined for Turkey. The move shed new light on NATO member Turkey’s assistance for Russian efforts to undercut sanctions penalizing Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.
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2 months ago | 
tjvnews.com | Sinan Ciddi |Andrea Stricker
Ankara appears to be taking quiet but deliberate steps toward producing enriched uranium fuel, which has dual purposes in fueling nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. In October 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Niger, securing a provisional mining agreement with the country’s junta government.
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2 months ago | 
fdd.org | Libby Fern |Sinan Ciddi |Andrea Stricker
A livestream of the conversation will begin here at 12:00pm ET on Monday, February 10. For questions about FDD events, please contact . For media inquiries, please contact . Over the last two months, Turkey has thrown its weight behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the victorious Syrian rebel group who ousted Bashar al-Assad’s government from power.
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2 months ago | 
fdd.org | Sinan Ciddi |Andrea Stricker
Ankara appears to be taking quiet but deliberate steps toward producing enriched uranium fuel, which has dual purposes in fueling nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. In October 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and National Intelligence Chief Ibrahim Kalin visited Niger, securing a provisional mining agreement with the country’s junta government.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
fdd.org | Anthony Ruggiero |Andrea Stricker
The State Department sanctioned senior officials of Rosatom, Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation, on Friday, including its CEO, Alexei Likhachev. These sanctions are long overdue and reflect the Biden administration’s past failure to stem a key revenue source for Russia and its war against Ukraine. Rosatom’s annual revenue in 2023 amounted to more than $16 billion, up from nearly $12 billion in 2022. The company hopes to top $18 billion when 2024 figures come in.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
fdd.org | Zachary Berman |Andrea Stricker
VIDEO Andrea joins i24 News to break down why Iran nuclear talks are resuming ahead of President Trump's inauguration.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
fdd.org | Andrea Stricker
The media has largely ignored a disturbing trend: Russia is openly using chemical weapons against Ukraine. Ukraine’s army support services say Russia has carried out 4,800 chemical attacks against its troops since Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s invasion. Kyiv has counted a resulting 3 deaths and 2,000 hospitalizations. Moscow is not the only culprit increasingly turning to nonconventional weaponry: Iran, Syria, China, North Korea, and Burma all possess chemical weapons programs.
