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Iran has already restarted some of its drone production since the ceasefire came into effect last April, CNN reported on May 21, citing United States intelligence assessments.
Four sources told the news channel that U.S. intelligence indicates the Islamic Republic is reconstituting much faster than initially estimated.
The rebuilding of military capabilities, including replacing missile sites, launchers and production capacity for key weapons systems destroyed during the current conflict, means that Iran remains a significant threat to regional allies should President Donald Trump restart the bombing campaign, according to the sources.
One of the sources familiar with the intelligence assessments said that Iran could fully reconstitute its drone attack capability in as soon as six months.
“The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the IC had for reconstitution,” the official said.
Another source noted that Iran has been able to rebuild much faster than expected due to a combination of factors, ranging from support it is receiving from Russia and China to the fact that the U.S. and Israel did not inflict as much damage as the two countries had hoped.
CNN said, citing two of its sources, that China has continued to provide Iran with components during the conflict that can be used to build missiles.
Thousands of Iranian drones still exist — roughly 50% of the country’s drone capabilities — two sources previously told CNN the intelligence indicated.
CNN reported in April that U.S. intelligence assessed that roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers had survived, but more recent reports increased that figure to two thirds partially due to the ongoing ceasefire providing Iran with time to dig out launchers trapped in underground sites as a result of U.S. and Israeli strikes.
U.S. intelligence assessments also indicate that a large percentage of Iran’s coastal defense cruise missiles were intact, according to CNN’s latest report.
One of the sources familiar with the assessments told the channel that the damage to Iran’s defense industrial base has likely set its ability to reconstitute back by a matter of months, not years. The same source noted that some of Iran’s defense industrial base remains intact.
The report came amid what seems to be last ditch efforts by Pakistan and several Muslim and Arab states to broker an agreement between the U.S. and Iran. The two sides remain far off on several key issues, however, and Israel is pushing for a new attack on the Islamic Republic.
The last few weeks saw some serious clashes in the Strait of Hormuz and beyond, with Iran demonstrating that its military capabilities were not eroded. Thus, CNN’s latest report didn’t come as a surprise.
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iran needs to go after the zionist gov leaders to decapitate the israeli regime.
nope the globalist’s plan to move to a multipolar world order is well on it’s way. with the approval of g7.
cant talk about putin, or owning shares. or eisenhower and the military blah blah blah
the globalist empire commits suicide with every effort to control with political deceptions and military actions . funny , when working together towards universal prosperity provides better results . old mafia plans will not survive the new future . period
go iran! 🇮🇷 💪🇮🇷💪🇮🇷💪
they never stopped producing drones or missiles. come on sf
anything coming out of the amerikunt/ zionist cia/ mossad genocide/ terror machine is completely worthless as a source of information. it lsn’t even worth reporting.
southfront is clearly biased towards the “red” team. by your standards everything is worthless, and it is. because the truth is obfuscated by media/bias/internet filters/fog of war/lies/misinformation/disinformation. (from nations, corporations and rouges.) the darpa-net is not the wild-west it was.
search engines give a.i. lies and 3 pages of unrelated results. edit: even when using “need” -avoid prefix.
you are using the d.a.r.p.a.-net. it was made by the n.s.a. has back doors. and i don’t know how or why the russians and chinese use it. but they have made firewalls and other locked doors. 737’s just upgraded from windows xp to windows 7.
in fairness, i think they are just reporting what cnn said and the western intelligence machine which disseminates fake/false information. “they” have to create a scare factor and show iran ramping up weapons production and the exsitence of the entire world is now allegedly in grave danger so we need to bomb iran into nothingness. again. meh. just look beyond the rubbish news.
wade through the pravda.
to je dobre. a dúfajme, že majú aj nejaké tie vylepšenia. čína a rusko by mali iránu teraz pomáhať. irán zadržiava bastardov z usa a to je dobre. ešte tak potopiť usa aspoň jednu lietadlovú loď. to by bolo niečo úžasné. svet by tri dni oslavoval. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier.
cnn and ‘other sources’. may as well go to disney news for one’s info. thank god for the ever shrinking and controlled internet.
russia has replenished drones missiles via caspian în past 2 weeks—-
cnn bitches need to cry harder.