Iran retains 70% of missiles despite US campaign, escalating Gulf standoff

One sailor killed and eight wounded in tanker strikes; potential civilian impact from infrastructure attacks on desalination plants critical to Gulf water supply.

In the months since Washington declared Iran's military capacity broken, classified intelligence has quietly told a different story — one of underground bunkers cleared, launch sites restored, and missile stockpiles largely intact. What was announced as a decisive campaign has revealed itself, through renewed strikes in July, to be something older and more familiar: a contest of endurance between two powers neither willing nor able to deliver a final blow, while sailors die at sea and civilians in the Gulf watch their water supply burn.

Iran retains 70% of missiles despite US campaign, escalating Gulf standoff

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