IRGC spokesman claims Iran still making missiles, rebuffing Netanyahu

The spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps insists that Tehran is still building missiles, seeking to counter a claim by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it no longer can make any.

Gen. Ali Mohammad Naeini’s comments are carried by Iran’s state-run IRAN newspaper.

Referencing how Iranian schools consider a 20 as a perfect score, the general says, “Our missile industry score is 20 and there is no concern in this regard because we are producing missiles even during war conditions, which is amazing, and there is no particular problem in stockpiling.”

He also says the war will go on.

“These people expect the war to continue until the enemy is completely exhausted,” the general says of the Iranian public. “This war must end when the shadow of war is lifted from the country.”

Speaking from Jerusalem Thursday night at his first in-person press conference since the launch of the US-Israel campaign against Iran, Netanyahu said that “After 20 days, I can tell you — Iran today has no ability to enrich uranium, and no ability to produce ballistic missiles.”