Tehran has also reopened most of its underground storage facilities, repaired damaged missiles, and even assembled new missiles, The Washington Post reported, citing analysis by the agency.

It highlights a significant failure of the US’s war against Iran, which was intended to stop the regime bolstering its conventional defences to rebuild its nuclear programme.


Donald Trump claimed in the Oval Office on Tuesday that Iran’s “missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 per cent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had”.

In addition, the CIA analysis said Iran retains about 75 per cent of pre-war inventories of mobile launchers used to fire the missiles.