Tehran, Iran – The Iranian army is taking a look at how to reply to america’s deliberate implementation of financial measures which can be designed to “collapse” the government in Tehran.
It comes as US President Donald Trump introduced this week the “most crushing financial operation” in opposition to Iran, saying Tehran would face “financial warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale”.
Iranian commanders are reviewing new army methods to counteract the brand new US threats.
“The one clever and efficient answer to navigate tough historic junctures and neutralise the enemy’s plots at present and sooner or later,” Ahmad Vahdi, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), warned on Friday.
Marking Nationwide Day of Defence Business in Iran on Saturday, Ali Abdollahi, chief of workers of Iran’s armed forces, hailed a “deterrent defensive industrial revolution” within the home production of weaponry.
However as occurred final 12 months, authorities opted to not exhibit new arms.
“We’ve got restricted unveilings of weapons and tools as a way to shock the enemy and safeguard the nation’s defensive data and secrets and techniques,” Ministry of Defence spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik advised state media on Saturday.
Nevertheless, he claimed that within the 12 months after the 12-day warfare with Israel and the US in June 2025, Iran doubled its manufacturing of weapons and defensive tools.
For the reason that begin of the present warfare with the US and Israel on February 28, manufacturing of some “strategic and prioritised merchandise” has greater than tripled, he claimed.
Talaei-Nik additionally stated greater than 9,300 firms in Iran are concerned in producing weapons, which implies US and Israeli strikes wouldn’t have the ability to destroy this sector.
Appearing Defence Minister Majid Ebn-e Reza stated on Friday that in comparison with final 12 months’s warfare with Israel and the US, the Iranian armed forces had been in a position to obtain deeper penetration of enemy bases, larger strike accuracy, and extra profitable air defence interceptions.
In one other future warfare, the IRGC will deploy new generations of warheads for its ballistic and cruise missiles, as manufacturing and improvement by no means stopped, IRGC spokesman Hossein Mohebbi stated on Thursday.
The truce between the US and Iran, which took maintain on April 8, adopted almost 40 days of intense bombing and concerned 1000’s of flight sorties.
The White Home claimed that greater than 85 % of Iran’s defence-industrial base had been destroyed, together with nearly all of its ballistic missiles, cell launchers and long-range drones.
It additionally stated that greater than 150 Iranian warships had been destroyed, each submarine sunk, and 97 % of Iran’s naval-mine stock eradicated.
However a confidential US intelligence evaluation reported by media in Could discovered that Iran retained roughly 75 % of its cell launchers and 70 % of its pre-war missile stock.
Even after an extra two weeks of intense bombardment by the US in July, the IRGC and the Iranian military continued to launch missiles and drones at US bases and worldwide delivery within the Strait of Hormuz – though at a slower tempo in contrast with the beginning of the warfare.
Iranian commanders have stated the July strikes by the US signalled potential planning for floor operations in southern Iran, and the army was able to counter any such efforts by Washington.
Consultants have stated Iran has continued to supply weapons in geographically dispersed underground bases which have stayed out of attain of US bombs, whilst many overground manufacturing traces had been decimated.
Along with the extra complicated and dear ballistic missiles, cheaper and easier-to-make explosive drones have helped Iran eat a lot of US interceptors, reveal radar positions, pressure airports or vitality websites to droop operations, and create disruptions within the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s air defences and ageing air pressure largely failed to stop US, Israeli and Arab breaches of its airspace throughout bombing runs.
However smaller electro-optical, heat-seeking and man-portable techniques have managed some interceptions, together with the downing of an F-15 fighter jet.
At the least 45 superior MQ-9 Reaper drones of the US army, a few quarter of the whole fleet at the price of greater than $1.3bn, had been both shot down by Iran or had been misplaced via data-link or operational failures, in line with US media reviews.
Within the Strait of Hormuz, which US President Donald Trump declared US territory this week, Washington and its allies have managed to extend discrete oil and vitality transfers over latest weeks.
However regardless of vital harm inflicted on Iran’s naval capabilities, missile, drone and quick boat assaults imply oil flows through the Hormuz are nonetheless significantly decrease than their pre-war ranges.
Disruptions to sea visitors are additionally occurring within the Purple Sea and Bab al-Mandeb strait, the place Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen have intermittently clashed with Saudi Arabia and its pursuits.
Iran and the US usually are not engaged in any significant dialogue, so a diplomatic method out of the warfare is at present not in sight.
