Iran has reopened most entrances to 18 underground missile sites struck in war — report

Iran has salvaged 50 out of 69 tunnel entrances at 18 underground missile facilities struck by the US and Israel in the recent war, CNN reports, citing satellite images. The regime is “poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals,” the report says.

Experts speaking to CNN say the images reveal the limits of the Israel-US bombing campaign, with Iran using bulldozers and dump trucks to reopen the missile sites.

Iran can now “continue launching missiles so long as they have launchers and crews, even if production has halted,” Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, told CNN. “There’s nothing to prevent the launchers from being armed with the ample stockpile of missiles that the Iranians still have.”

The ceasefire declared by Trump in April came with core declared goals of the war unfulfilled, including ensuring that Iran does not attain nuclear weapons, destroying its missile program, and creating the conditions for the Iranian public to overthrow the regime.