{"id":45263,"date":"2026-04-03T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=45263"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:21:00","slug":"u-s-intel-finds-iran-retains-significant-strike-capacity-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/u-s-intel-finds-iran-retains-significant-strike-capacity-report\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. intel finds Iran retains significant strike capacity: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Latest U.S. intelligence assessments show that roughly half of Iran&#8217;s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran&#8217;s arsenal more than one month after the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, CNN reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout the entire region,&#8221; a source familiar with the intelligence told the U.S. media outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The assessments also indicate that Iran retains a large number of missiles, as well as a significant portion of its coastal defense cruise missiles, a key capability for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Although Iran&#8217;s Navy vessels have largely been destroyed, the separate naval forces belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps still retain roughly half of its capabilities, with &#8220;hundreds, if not thousands, of small boats and unmanned surface vessels left,&#8221; according to sources cited by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence shows that Iran&#8217;s use of underground facilities has helped preserve its missile launchers. The country has long hidden its launchers in extensive networks of tunnels and caves, making them particularly difficult to target.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday put the timeline for completing U.S. military operations at two to three weeks. However, a source who has reviewed the intelligence assessments described the timeline as unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>Israel, U.S. allies in the Gulf, as well as U.S. troops, have continued to face regular missile and drone strikes from Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest U.S. intelligence assessments show that roughly half of Iran&#8217;s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran&#8217;s arsenal more than one month after the United States and Israel launched massive strikes on Iran, CNN reported on Thursday. &#8220;They are still very much poised to wreak absolute havoc throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45264,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45263\/revisions\/45264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}