Make New York Post a Preferred Source Iran still has up to 2,500 missiles stockpiled, Us officials said — as the regime warned Sunday that its weapons could reach the US aircraft at the Fairford military base in the UK.
The report, from the Wall Street Journal, came as it attacked an American base in Bahrain over the weekend.
According to a US intelligence assessment, the Islamic republic has at least 1,500 to 2,500 missiles remaining in its stockpile, the Wall Street Journal reported.
While calculating Iran’s stockpile remains difficult, Simone Ledeen, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East in Trump’s first term, said even the low estimate of 1,500 weapons means Tehran has rebuilt half its pre-war stockpile.
The figure would match what is already known about Iran’s production capacity. The regime had previously fully rebuilt its arsenal between last year’s 12-day war and the current conflict, Ledeen told the Journal.
Despite the Trump administration and Israeli government’s repeated claim that Iran’s missile program had been decimated, the Islamic republic continues to launch missile and drone attacks against US bases in the region and ships attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
The size of Iran’s arsenal has also raised concerns due to the regime’s increasing accuracy. An analysis found that Tehran’s strikes in July and June were more sophisticated and specifically aimed at soldiers’ sleeping quarters.
The latest attacks came early Sunday, with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claiming it fired six drones at a US air defense radar at the Al-Rifaa helicopter base in Bahrain.
The US and Bahraini military said they were able to intercept the latest Iranian attacks, with the Gulf country condemning the barrage as a clear act of escalation.
With Iran repeatedly targeting US bases in the region, the Islamic republic ramped up its threats on Sunday as it warned that its Khorramshahr ballistic missile could reach American military bases as far as Europe.
State broadcasters specifically warned that the modified missile could reach the US-UK RAF Fairford base about 2,800 miles away.
“The range of Iran’s missiles is not limited to what they have seen,” broadcasters warned.
Iran has threatened the air base before, with the regime accused of masterminding the terror plot that was foiled in late September.
It remains unclear if Iran’s ballistic missile is actually capable of reaching the UK air base.
