DD Geopolitics: 🇮🇷 Iran has restored access to most of its underground missile bases in under two months,...

🇮🇷 Iran has restored access to most of its underground missile bases in under two months, despite the massive US-Israeli bombing campaign. That is the conclusion of a satellite imagery analysis published by CNN.

During the war, the US and Israel targeted Iran's underground missile infrastructure by destroying access roads and collapsing tunnel entrances. But since the ceasefire, Tehran has moved fast. Of 69 tunnel entrances across 18 struck underground facilities, 50 have already been cleared.

Satellite imagery shows the recovery effort relies on nothing more sophisticated than bulldozers, excavators, and dump trucks. Roads have been restored at most sites, with some sections already freshly paved.

Multiple sources told CNN the recovery has proven far cheaper and simpler than the strikes themselves. "You have to use very complex and expensive weapons to cause that kind of damage, and all you need to repair it is bulldozers," said Timur Kadyshev, researcher at the University of Hamburg.

US intelligence confirms Iran has already resumed drone production and is rebuilding missile and launcher manufacturing capacity. One American official told CNN that Tehran is ahead of the recovery timeline the intelligence community had previously projected.

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