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🚨🇮🇷 🇺🇸 The missiles that killed three American soldiers came from bases the U.S. already bombed, dug out and firing again

-Military analysts say the deadly Muwaffaq Salti strike was likely carried out by Iran’s best missiles, including the Kheibar Shekan: 900-mile range, solid fuel, satellite guidance, Mach 5 impact, and a claimed maneuvering warhead built to evade defenses

-The missile bases housing them were pounded for weeks in March and April, then Iran’s engineering crews repaired the roads, cleared the rubble, and reopened the collapsed tunnel entrances, with satellite imagery showing trucks back at work by early June

-Hegseth called Iran’s missile program “functionally destroyed” in April; pressed by Sen. Ossoff Tuesday, his answer shifted: “We never expected they would stop having capabilities to shoot”

-A former Israeli air defense commander’s read on why more missiles get through: “Their radars are exposed; their infrastructure is exposed,” the region’s own defenses degraded by earlier Iranian attacks

-One expert’s summary: Iran spent decades watching how America fights and “built an overall infrastructure that is designed to ride out” exactly this war

The tunnel entrances are the whole war in miniature.

America entombs the arsenal, Iran’s bulldozers dig it out in weeks, and the missiles that emerge are the newest and hardest to stop.

Four attacks on U.S. troops in Jordan in five days means Tehran isn’t running empty, it’s pacing itself, betting each American coffin raises the price of staying until Trump renegotiates.

11 nights of strikes, and the arsenal designed to survive them keeps proving it was.

Source: Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel

— @MarioNawfal Jul 22, 2026