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Despite the war waged by the United States and Israel, Iran’s manufacturing of advanced weapons proceeds without any interruption, according to the Islamic Republic’s deputy defense minister.
Speaking on August 21, Brig. Gen. Shahrokh Shahram stated that the “enemy” miscalculated Iran’s defense and military capabilities during the war and wrongly assumed that targeting a few sites linked to the Defense Ministry would cripple the country’s military production.
“The production of advanced weaponry in Iran is continuing uninterrupted,” he said.
Shahram noted that Iran enjoys broad national participation in its defense industry, making it impossible for the enemy to halt military production through attacks on a limited number of facilities.
The senior official also said that as the fighting continued, the enemy faced “more devastating, advanced, and larger volumes of weapons,” leading them to realize their assaults on the defense industry had failed.
“We had made the necessary preparations for this war and had relocated our defense and military assets from vulnerable locations and bottlenecks, to the extent that the enemy could not even identify a single one of our missile cities,” Shahram explained.
Concluding his remarks, Shahram shared that the war imposed by the U.S. and Israel has provided “special momentum” to domestic defense industries.
“If previously production was carried out in a routine and uniform manner, it is now increasing at an astonishing and upward pace,” he pointed out.
These remarks closely mirror recent intelligence assessments and reporting regarding the resilience of Iran’s defense manufacturing network.
Following extensive joint U.S. and Israeli air campaigns targeting military-industrial sites—such as solid-fuel engine plants and missile facilities in cities like Karaj and Shahroud—foreign intelligence sources and defense analysts observed that Iran was able to rapidly restart limited production of critical systems.
According to reports from outlets like The Jerusalem Post and Militarnyi citing Israeli and U.S. intelligence, Iran utilized surviving components, restored damaged assembly lines, and leveraged decentralized underground infrastructure to bounce back at a pace that caught foreign observers by surprise.
Furthermore, investigative reporting highlighted how Iran deployed bulldozers and quick-repair teams to clear blocked entrances to its subterranean “missile cities,” enabling the country to sustain and reconstitute its ballistic missile and drone arsenals faster than anticipated.
Iran’s ability to resume military production shocked both the U.S. and Israel and has likely contributed to the decision to halt the war.
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