The newspaper The Telegraph and The New York Times reported on the surprising discovery of the intelligence services. At the same time, new reports indicate that Iran is better able to hide missile launchers by quickly withdrawing them into hiding after completing a firing mission. According to the cited sources, Iran still has a significant number of missiles and mobile launch systems.
After the start of the American and Israeli strikes, the number of Iranian retaliatory strikes decreased from a hundred to less than 40 per day, half of which are aimed at the Jewish state. The White House explained it as a success.
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New intelligence cited by The New York Times suggests Iran has been rapidly repairing underground missile bunkers and returning launch systems to operation within hours after strikes.
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However, reporters point out that this is not an expression of Tehran’s weakness, but its adaptation. According to them, the Tehran regime wishes to maintain the greatest possible capacity for launching rockets, so that it can exert the greatest possible pressure even if the war drags on, or threatens the region even after its end.
In addition to missiles, Iran sends 50 to 100 drones a day, most of which are intercepted by the air defenses of the target countries, but this ties up their defense resources.
Last week, the Pentagon stated at a briefing that US forces had hit eleven thousand targets in Iran during the first five weeks of the war. Israel, on the other hand, claims that three quarters of Iran’s missile launchers were destroyed by March 7.
However, according to The Telegraph, new news reports cast doubt on the claim that Iran’s missile capacity is largely destroyed. Missiles and drones launched by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards continue to hit targets in the Persian Gulf and in Israel.
At the same time, military experts warn that the more Iranian systems are destroyed, the more difficult it will be to trace the remaining ones. In addition, Iran has a strategic advantage in that the underground bases, the so-called rocket cities, has hidden deep in the ground.
Nobody should underestimate the topography of Iran. Roughly half of its territory is made up of mountains, according to experts.
American Defense Minister Pete Hegseth still does not lose his optimism. “Yes, they will continue to launch several rockets, but we will shoot them down,” he declared. “And if they go underground, we will find them,” added the head of the Pentagon.
Four dead in Haifa
But on Monday, the Iranian regime showed again that it can still resist. His ballistic missile hit a residential building in Haifa, Israel, in the ruins of which four people died and others were injured.
That afternoon, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards announced that they had attacked an American landing ship and forced it to retreat to the southern part of the Indian Ocean.
And in Dubai, debris from a captured drone hit the building of an American technology company. Although no one was injured, the message is clear: the targets of the attacks are not only American military bases, but also the headquarters of American companies.
