{"id":56903,"date":"2026-04-22T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56903"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T08:40:37","slug":"iran-has-thousands-of-missiles-to-continue-war-intel-belies-trumps-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=56903","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Iran Has Thousands Of Missiles To Continue War&#8217;: Intel Belies Trump&#8217;s Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NDTV:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite weeks of intense airstrikes by the US and Israeli forces on its territory, Iran seems to have retained thousands of missiles and kamikaze drones, according to a new intelligence assessment, which contradicts the Trump administration&#8217;s chest-thumping declarations of victory in the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even before the ceasefire was declared, US President Donald Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had claimed the Iranian Air Force was &#8220;wiped out&#8221; and the Navy was &#8220;at the bottom of the sea&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by Business Insider, Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Adams, director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, has said that Tehran still has &#8220;thousands&#8221; of missiles and one-way attack drones, posing a continued threat to US bases and its allies in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NDTV: Despite weeks of intense airstrikes by the US and Israeli forces on its territory, Iran seems to have retained thousands of missiles and kamikaze drones, according to a new intelligence assessment, which contradicts the Trump administration&#8217;s chest-thumping declarations of victory in the conflict in the Middle East. Even before the ceasefire was declared, US President Donald Trump and his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, had claimed the Iranian Air Force was &#8220;wiped out&#8221; and the Navy was &#8220;at the bottom of the sea&#8221;. According to a report by Business Insider, Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Adams, director of the Defence&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56905,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56903\/revisions\/56905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}