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The Bloomberg agency, citing Western intelligence, reported that during the 8 weeks of the truce with the United States, Iran most likely replenished its missile stockpile with new Russian weapons and restored a significant part of its missile arsenal.
Source: Bloombergreports “European truth”
Details: The article says this gives Iran the ability to retaliate in near full force if hostilities resume.
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According to intelligence estimates, Tehran has about three-quarters of the munitions it had before the war, and could easily add more. Among them are unidentified Russian missiles that were probably launched last year, according to one of the assessments.
US President Donald Trump said last week that Iran had only 21-22% of its missiles remaining.
According to intelligence estimates in March, Iran had about 60% of its prewar stockpile of missiles remaining at the height of the US-Israeli air campaign.
From February 28 to April 8, when the ceasefire took effect, Iran launched more than 1,850 missiles across the region and at least twice as many Shahed drones.
The US and Israel estimate that they destroyed about two-thirds of Iran’s launchers in the first month of the war.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in mid-March that the offensive potential of the Iranian regime had been reduced by 90%.
Many of Iran’s ballistic missiles and launchers were reported to be “buried” — that is, covered in debris that blocked the entrances to the underground vaults where they were stored. Tehran most likely used the truce to reopen these warehouses and move stocks.
What preceded: Earlier, US President Donald Trump said that the signing of an agreement with Iran may take place this weekend in Europe., and the head of the Foreign Ministry of Iran – that the agreement “closer than ever”.
Trump also said that cancels announced strikes on Iranas the negotiating teams approved the “final points” of the agreement.
