Information obtained by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) brings together multiple reports about Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Earlier revelations about weapons sites including Parchin, Sanjarian, Semnan, and Shahrud are now understood as elements of an overall Iranian nuclear weapons program called the Kavir Plan ("The Desert Plan") which picked up where the earlier AMAD (Iranian Scientific Project) Plan left off.
That network was recently under intense aerial bombardment by the Israeli Air Force.
NCRI press conferences held in December 2024, January, April, and May 2025 provided details about ballistic missile and nuclear warhead work conducted at regime sites in Semnan Province, northeastern Iran.
A June 10 2025 press conference at the NCRI office in Washington, D.C. added new findings. After Israeli operations severely degraded Iran’s Islamic terror proxies,
Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, as well as its air defense systems, the Iranian regime accelerated its work on deliverable nuclear weapons.
That work is carried out under the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), responsible for the weaponization of Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Israel began aerial strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear weapons program June 12-13, 2025.
Since then, "Operation Rising Lion" has taken aim at sites including the Arak plutonium enrichment plant, Isfahan conversion facility, Natanz enrichment site, and ballistic missile sites across Iran. The deeply buried Fordow enrichment site with thousands of advanced centrifuges yet remains.
Senior regime intelligence and military figures, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Qods Force, and Bassij leadership have been assassinated in precision strikes. IRGC and Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) senior intelligence officials have been taken out.
Top nuclear scientists, the brain trust of Iran’s nuclear weapons program, also have been eliminated. Senior leadership defending Iran’s regime has been eliminated, throwing command and control into chaos.
There is increasing talk about the possibility that the Iranian regime could collapse in coming days. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly hiding with family members in a bunker outside of Tehran.
Transport and bazaar strikes, shortages of electricity, gasoline, and water are inflicting severe hardship on the Iranian population, already hard hit economically by plunging exchange rates of the national currency.
What lies ahead for Iran over coming days is uncertain, but Israeli leadership and U.S. President Donald Trump are aligned in determination that this Iranian regime will never acquire nuclear weapons.
Dangerous events leading to Israel’s decision that no time remained to avoid an imminent existential threat intensified in recent weeks.
Contrary to earlier intelligence assessments, echoed by U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in March 2025 Senate Intelligence Committee testimony, Iran continued its quest for deliverable nuclear weapons even after some were convinced it was shut down after NCRI revelations in 2002.
The 2016 Mossad heist of documents from a Tehran warehouse confirmed details of Iran’s nuclear AMAD Plan, which began in 1999 but was reorganized after NCRI revelations and took nuclear weapons development work literally underground.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) collaborated with Iran’s Ministry of Defense (MOD), the IRGC intelligence unit, Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), MOD’s Counterintelligence Division, and Kavir Security Unit of the State Security Forces (SSF), to conceal ongoing work on nuclear weapons.
AEOI pretended for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to abide by terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to deceive the IAEA by openly enriching uranium only to the 3.67% level, while under the MOD and SPND, enrichment continued to at least the 60% level and likely to 90 % Weapons Grade Uranium (WGU).
After 2009, per new information acquired by NCRI sources inside Iran, the Amad Plan was superseded by the Kavir Plan.
Much of southern Semnan Province was designated as an off-limits military zone where strict security measures ensure secrecy also for the Kavir Plan.
Since December 2024, the NCRI has revealed details of four sites in Semnan Province associated with the Kavir Plan: Ivanaki, Noor-al-Din Abad Garmsar radar site, Shahroud missile site, and expansion of the Semnan missile site.
Notably, under the guise of developing missiles for satellite launches, advanced work on nuclear warheads was being conducted on an accelerated schedule.
Israel has been kept well-aware of this information, likely by the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK) network of Iranian resistance forces inside Iran.
According to Iranian state-run media outlets including Iranian Student’s News Agency (ISNA) and Tasnim, the Iranian regime is offering 100 million Tomans (equivalent to $1,000) for information about contacts between the MEK and Mossad.
Those contacts likely assisted Mossad to establish a FOB (Forward Operating Base) near Tehran where drones and missiles were smuggled in to counter retaliatory strikes by Iran.
Western powers are lining up in support of Israel.
At the June 18, 2025, Strasbourg meeting of the European Parliament, NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi spoke to a gathering from across Europe that spanned the political spectrum.
She spoke about the desire of the Iranian people to overthrow the mullahs’ regime and replace it with a democratic republic based on her 2006 10-Point Plan, that includes separation of religion and state, gender equality, ethnic minority autonomy, abolition of the death penalty, an independent judiciary, and a non-nuclear Iran that lives in peace with its Mideast neighbors.
Key questions now arise, about any U.S. role in supporting Israeli operations and whether conditions are being set that will enable the Iranian people to rise up to overthrow the regime.
Clare M. Lopez is the Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC. Read More Clare M. Lopez — Here.
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