{"id":614401,"date":"2026-06-07T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614401"},"modified":"2026-06-07T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T02:45:00","slug":"watch-more-evidence-iran-is-rapidly-restoring-its-missile-tunnels-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614401","title":{"rendered":"Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4597687\/trump-iran-missile-capacity-nbc\/\">NBC<\/a>: <strong>&#8220;They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That&#8217;s a lot, but it&#8217;s not what it was before the war.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He and top White House officials had previously mused that the Iranians are working hard to reconstitute their defenses after the opening US-Israeli heavy bombing campaign of Operation Epic Fury.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh statement comes on the heels of a Washington Post story last month which cited CIA estimates saying Iran still holds about 70% of its missiles and 75% of missile launchers it had before the war. <strong>So there&#8217;s a likelihood that Iran still has significantly more than just 20% of its arsenal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also some anecdotal evidence, and statements from the Iranians themselves, such as in the following&#8230; Watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Iran restored internet access, revealing footage of rescue operations at western Iranian tunnel sites struck by U.S. and Israeli forces. The tunnels were used to shelter missile launchers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PnTfwjoV0B\">pic.twitter.com\/PnTfwjoV0B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Open Source Intel (@Osint613) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Osint613\/status\/2062960357199446307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Iranians have been utilizing basic construction equipment to dig out several missile launchers and reopen subterranean tunnels tied to its missile program.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iran has repaired other parts of the bases as well, including roads that the US and Israel bombed to prevent missile launchers from using them,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/31\/us\/iran-tunnels-reopened-us-strategy-bombing-invs\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0wrote last week.\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Satellite images show almost all these craters have now been filled, and at two sites, even repaved.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the same outlet late last month that &#8220;There\u2019s nothing to prevent the launchers from being armed with the ample stockpile of missiles that the Iranians still have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He sought to highlight the limits of American firepower, in terms of damage, and given that it hasn&#8217;t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/31\/us\/iran-tunnels-reopened-us-strategy-bombing-invs\">been sustained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cThe US military is good at delivering tactical successes, and entombing and suppressing the Iranian missile force is a great example of that,\u201d said Lair.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cHowever, if that isn\u2019t accompanied by a set of reasonable strategic war aims and an achievable theory of victory, it can end up being a strategic failure.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/irantunnels.jpg?itok=S29l-GGM\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/irantunnels.jpg?itok=S29l-GGM\"><\/a><\/p>\n<figure role=\"group\" class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"478e20b8-7986-4e63-a8f2-848a937f69f1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/irantunnels.jpg?itok=S29l-GGM\" width=\"500\" \/><figcaption><em>Via AP:\u00a0Zagros Mountains in central Iran, where a deep underground nuclear facility was reportedly built.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>President Trump has been touting the near annihilation of Iran&#8217;s arsenal, and has lately said the rest of its launch sites could be taken out in a day if he gave the order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 06\/06\/2026 &#8211; 22:45<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/irantunnels.jpg?itok=S29l-GGM\" title=\"Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels President Trump has newly estimated that Iran has 21%-22% of its missiles remaining. Trump said in an interview with NBC: &#8220;They have some missiles and drones, percentage-wise maybe 21%-22% of the missiles. That&#8217;s a lot, but it&#8217;s not what it was before the war.&#8221; He&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=614401\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch: More Evidence Iran Is Rapidly Restoring Its Missile Tunnels<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":614397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}