Iran retains most missile stockpiles, US intelligence suggests
2 min readIran is still in possession of the majority of its stockpiles of mobile launchers and missiles, suggesting that its military remains far stronger than President Donald Trump has asserted, according to a report in The New York Times.
Citing people familiar with the assessments, the newspaper said that intelligence findings from early May show Iran has regained operational access to most of its missile sites, including 30 of the 33 missile sites along the Strait of Hormuz.
According to the report, Iran can still use the missile stockpiles in non-operational sites by launching them with mobile launchers, with the country maintaining roughly 70% of its mobile launcher inventory.
The assessments also found that nearly 90% of Iran’s underground missile storage and launch facilities nationwide are now “partially or fully operational.”
White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales was quoted as saying that Iran’s government knows that its “current reality is not sustainable” and that anyone who “thinks Iran has reconstituted its military is either delusional or a mouthpiece” for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, triggering retaliation from Tehran against Israel as well as US allies in the Gulf, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
A two-week ceasefire took effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but subsequent talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement.
The truce was later extended indefinitely by Trump. Since then, Pakistan has been working to revive the stalled diplomacy.
Trump rejected Iran’s latest response to a US proposal to permanently end the war, calling it “totally unacceptable.”
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