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Marking Iran’s Defense Industry Day on August 22, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi inspected an underground facility manufacturing missiles and defense systems.
Accompanied by Acting Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Majid Ebn al-Reza, Abdollahi toured the subterranean production plant to review the latest achievements in homegrown military hardware.
The inspection came as senior defense officials boasted significant expansions in domestic military manufacturing despite the devastating war waged by the United States and Israel earlier this year.
Official footage from the tour showed what appears to be an industrial planetary mixer, typically used to mix solid fuel for ballistic missiles. During the recent war, Israel claimed to have destroyed a significant portion of such mixers in the Islamic Republic.
Abdollahi is also seen speaking in front of dozens of newly-made Almas anti-tank guided missiles. Israel also claimed to have destroyed the facility that manufactured these advanced missiles.
Speaking to state television, Defense Ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Reza Talaei-Nik reported that the country’s overall weapons and defense equipment production has doubled over the past year, with a subsequent threefold increase now targeted.
Talaei-Nik asserted that output for specific strategic products with wartime priority surged past threefold levels during recent conflicts, defying predictions from U.S. and Israeli leadership that Iran’s military manufacturing sector would collapse.
“We use our own equipment and simultaneously continue producing,” Talaei-Nik said, crediting the defense sector’s high capacity to daily uninterrupted output, an extensive production network, and long-term strategic reserves.
According to the spokesman, more than 9,000 private and knowledge-based companies now contribute to the national defense supply chain—representing a 20% increase over the past year—while 76% of research initiatives reached product completion.
Talaei-Nik said that domestic manufacturing has driven the cost of select Iranian weapons down to one-tenth or one-twentieth of foreign equivalents.
Iran currently builds more than 1,000 types of advanced military systems and weapons, a sharp rise from just 31 basic items produced prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, he added.
According to recent reports from outlets like The Jerusalem Post and Militarnyi citing Israeli and U.S. intelligence, Iran utilized surviving components, restored damaged assembly lines, and leveraged decentralized underground infrastructure to bounce back at a pace that caught foreign observers by surprise.
By moving military production underground, Iran denies the U.S. and Israel the ability to target its military industrial complex. Both countries failed to his launch and storage sites located in tunnels, and the Islamic Republic is now capitalizing on this success.
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