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there is not a good source for this yet, just a telegram channel, no official announcement
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Iran has unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrances struck by the US and Israel at 18 underground missile facilities
At a missile base in Dezful, Iran, four of the five entrances to the underground facility could be seen reopened on May 12. Circled in gray is the one entrance to the complex that remained blocked.
March 9, 2026
May 8, 2026
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
At a missile base in Dezful, Iran, four of the five entrances to the underground facility could be seen reopened on May 12. Circled in gray is the one entrance to the complex that remained blocked.
March 9, 2026
May 8, 2026
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
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The CNN article in full
Iran is poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals – an effort that highlights the limits to US bombing strategy, experts said.
For weeks, strikes by the United States and Israel restricted Iran’s access to its underground missile sites by destroying roads and burying tunnel entrances.
But satellite images reviewed by CNN show how Iran has used simple equipment such as bulldozers and dump trucks to counter those costly campaigns — suggesting that Tehran’s missile capabilities can’t be destroyed just by targeting tunnel entrances, experts said.
While Iran and the US have reached a tentative agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, months of work remain to hammer out details.
If hostilities do resume, Iran is in position to “continue launching missiles so long as they have launchers and crews, even if production has halted,” said Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies who analyzes Iran’s missile capabilities. “There’s nothing to prevent the launchers from being armed with the ample stockpile of missiles that the Iranians still have.”
At a missile base in Dezful, Iran, four of the five entrances to the underground facility could be seen reopened on May 12. Circled in gray is the one entrance to the complex that remained blocked.
(Airbus)
During the fighting, Iran worked to excavate the tunnel entrances at great peril, with the US and Israel often striking the equipment used for digging. That work enabled Tehran to continue firing missiles throughout the war, though at vastly reduced rates. Since the ceasefire more than seven weeks ago, Iranian efforts to excavate the bases have accelerated significantly.
CNN found that Iran has now unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrances struck by the US and Israel at 18 underground missile facilities.
CNN analysis finds Iran is unearthing its missile arsenal
3:27 • Source: CNN
CNN analysis finds Iran is unearthing its missile arsenal
3:27
Iran has repaired other parts of the bases as well, including roads that the US and Israel bombed to prevent missile launchers from using them. Satellite images show almost all these craters have now been filled, and at two sites, even repaved.
“The US military is good at delivering tactical successes, and entombing and suppressing the Iranian missile force is a great example of that,” said Lair. “However, if that isn’t accompanied by a set of reasonable strategic war aims and an achievable theory of victory, it can end up being a strategic failure.”
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell did not respond to specific questions about CNN’s findings, repeating an earlier statement that “America’s military is the most powerful in the world and has everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the President’s choosing.”
Iran’s network of underground missile bases, which it began building more than 20 years ago, offers considerable protection to its missiles and launchers. The depth of the facilities, some of which are under hundreds of meters of rock, limit the options the US and Israeli militaries have for attacking the bases.
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
Airbus
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
Airbus
March 9, 2026
May 8, 2026
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved. (Airbus)
So, in the early weeks of the conflict, the militaries turned to striking their entrances, which combined with efforts to find and destroy launchers, resulted in significantly limiting Iranian missile fire.
Those strikes heavily damaged the bases, burying most tunnel entrances under mountains of debris and shattering roads leading to the sites.
Satellite images reviewed by CNN at the time showed facilities like the Isfahan North Missile Base, a key underground missile location, ravaged by multiple strikes with rubble covering tunnels and launchers destroyed outside.
The US and Israel also undertook a broad effort to wreck Iran’s missile supply chain, from factories where small electronic components are produced, to the sites where rocket propellants and missile bodies are manufactured.
After the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on April 8, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cited the efforts, saying that Iran would be “digging out your remaining launchers and missiles, with no ability to replace them. You have no defense industry.”
Experts believe Iran still has around 1,000 missiles stored in the underground sites.
That stockpile, deep below the surface, is unlikely to have sustained much damage from strikes at ground level, according to the experts, especially given that the Israeli military struck tunnel entrances in the same manner during the Twelve-Day War last year.
“They were preparing for this kind of war for 20 years,” said Timur Kadyshev, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg who studies Iran’s missiles. “They are very prepared.”
At one base, outside of Isfahan, the US and Israel conducted numerous strikes to block four tunnel entrances during the war. At least 18 craters could be seen at a pair of the entrances, indicating just how many munitions were expended to block the tunnels.
In early May, a satellite image showed a dump truck being used to fill in the craters. The other two entrances, also blocked by craters and debris, had already been opened, and the roads to them, previously destroyed by bombing, had been repaved.
At a base outside of Khomeyn in mid-April, an image showed at least 10 construction vehicles engaged in efforts to reopen one entrance.
A satellite image of an underground missile base near Khomeyn, Iran, shows at least 10 construction vehicles working to clear a tunnel entrance on April 15, 2026.
(Airbus)
As Iran recovers its missiles, and restores functionality to its missile bases, analysts are concerned that the continued threat posed by this arsenal is being underestimated, especially given the dwindling supply of US missile interceptors.
The strikes on Iran’s missile factories also may not prevent Tehran from reconstituting its missile production capabilities for as long as the US and Israel would like. During the Twelve-Day War some of these same factories were attacked as well. Although the recent strikes have been much broader, satellite images showed Iran had already rebuilt some of the facilities targeted last June.
US intelligence assessments indicate Iran has already been rebuilding key military capabilities, including restarting drone production and replacing missile launchers and production capacity.
“The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the (intelligence community) had for reconstitution,” one US official told CNN.
For Kadyshev, that difference in technologies exposes the difficulty in pursuing military options against Iran.
“You have to use very sophisticated, very expensive weapons to do this kind of damage, and the recovery is very low tech – it’s just bulldozers.”
Iran’s reopened underground missile sites show limits of US bombing plan
Iran is poised to fire far more long-range missiles at Israel and other Middle Eastern nations after rapidly digging out its buried arsenals – an effort that highlights the limits to US bombing strategy, experts said.
For weeks, strikes by the United States and Israel restricted Iran’s access to its underground missile sites by destroying roads and burying tunnel entrances.
But satellite images reviewed by CNN show how Iran has used simple equipment such as bulldozers and dump trucks to counter those costly campaigns — suggesting that Tehran’s missile capabilities can’t be destroyed just by targeting tunnel entrances, experts said.
While Iran and the US have reached a tentative agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, months of work remain to hammer out details.
If hostilities do resume, Iran is in position to “continue launching missiles so long as they have launchers and crews, even if production has halted,” said Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies who analyzes Iran’s missile capabilities. “There’s nothing to prevent the launchers from being armed with the ample stockpile of missiles that the Iranians still have.”
At a missile base in Dezful, Iran, four of the five entrances to the underground facility could be seen reopened on May 12. Circled in gray is the one entrance to the complex that remained blocked.
(Airbus)
During the fighting, Iran worked to excavate the tunnel entrances at great peril, with the US and Israel often striking the equipment used for digging. That work enabled Tehran to continue firing missiles throughout the war, though at vastly reduced rates. Since the ceasefire more than seven weeks ago, Iranian efforts to excavate the bases have accelerated significantly.
CNN found that Iran has now unblocked 50 out of the 69 tunnel entrances struck by the US and Israel at 18 underground missile facilities.
CNN analysis finds Iran is unearthing its missile arsenal
3:27 • Source: CNN
CNN analysis finds Iran is unearthing its missile arsenal
3:27
Iran has repaired other parts of the bases as well, including roads that the US and Israel bombed to prevent missile launchers from using them. Satellite images show almost all these craters have now been filled, and at two sites, even repaved.
“The US military is good at delivering tactical successes, and entombing and suppressing the Iranian missile force is a great example of that,” said Lair. “However, if that isn’t accompanied by a set of reasonable strategic war aims and an achievable theory of victory, it can end up being a strategic failure.”
Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell did not respond to specific questions about CNN’s findings, repeating an earlier statement that “America’s military is the most powerful in the world and has everything it needs to execute at the time and place of the President’s choosing.”
A goal of the war
President Donald Trump has repeatedly pointed to Iran’s arsenal of missiles as a reason for the war, with its destruction being one of the key goals. In a March post to Truth Social, Trump listed “completely degrading Iranian Missile Capability, Launchers, and everything else pertaining to them” as one of five “objectives” of the war.Iran’s network of underground missile bases, which it began building more than 20 years ago, offers considerable protection to its missiles and launchers. The depth of the facilities, some of which are under hundreds of meters of rock, limit the options the US and Israeli militaries have for attacking the bases.
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
Airbus
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved.
Airbus
March 9, 2026
May 8, 2026
Satellite images of a missile base north of Kermanshah, Iran, show that a pair of tunnel entrances bombed by the US and Israel have been reopened. The roads leading to the tunnels, cratered to prevent missile launchers driving down them, have been repaired and repaved. (Airbus)
So, in the early weeks of the conflict, the militaries turned to striking their entrances, which combined with efforts to find and destroy launchers, resulted in significantly limiting Iranian missile fire.
Those strikes heavily damaged the bases, burying most tunnel entrances under mountains of debris and shattering roads leading to the sites.
Satellite images reviewed by CNN at the time showed facilities like the Isfahan North Missile Base, a key underground missile location, ravaged by multiple strikes with rubble covering tunnels and launchers destroyed outside.
The US and Israel also undertook a broad effort to wreck Iran’s missile supply chain, from factories where small electronic components are produced, to the sites where rocket propellants and missile bodies are manufactured.
After the US and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on April 8, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth cited the efforts, saying that Iran would be “digging out your remaining launchers and missiles, with no ability to replace them. You have no defense industry.”
Experts believe Iran still has around 1,000 missiles stored in the underground sites.
That stockpile, deep below the surface, is unlikely to have sustained much damage from strikes at ground level, according to the experts, especially given that the Israeli military struck tunnel entrances in the same manner during the Twelve-Day War last year.
“They were preparing for this kind of war for 20 years,” said Timur Kadyshev, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg who studies Iran’s missiles. “They are very prepared.”
A furious repair effort
To reopen the bases, Iran has used a variety of construction and earthmoving equipment. In the satellite images, front-end loaders are visible scooping up rubble as dump trucks fill craters with dirt.At one base, outside of Isfahan, the US and Israel conducted numerous strikes to block four tunnel entrances during the war. At least 18 craters could be seen at a pair of the entrances, indicating just how many munitions were expended to block the tunnels.
In early May, a satellite image showed a dump truck being used to fill in the craters. The other two entrances, also blocked by craters and debris, had already been opened, and the roads to them, previously destroyed by bombing, had been repaved.
At a base outside of Khomeyn in mid-April, an image showed at least 10 construction vehicles engaged in efforts to reopen one entrance.
A satellite image of an underground missile base near Khomeyn, Iran, shows at least 10 construction vehicles working to clear a tunnel entrance on April 15, 2026.
(Airbus)
As Iran recovers its missiles, and restores functionality to its missile bases, analysts are concerned that the continued threat posed by this arsenal is being underestimated, especially given the dwindling supply of US missile interceptors.
The strikes on Iran’s missile factories also may not prevent Tehran from reconstituting its missile production capabilities for as long as the US and Israel would like. During the Twelve-Day War some of these same factories were attacked as well. Although the recent strikes have been much broader, satellite images showed Iran had already rebuilt some of the facilities targeted last June.
US intelligence assessments indicate Iran has already been rebuilding key military capabilities, including restarting drone production and replacing missile launchers and production capacity.
“The Iranians have exceeded all timelines the (intelligence community) had for reconstitution,” one US official told CNN.
For Kadyshev, that difference in technologies exposes the difficulty in pursuing military options against Iran.
“You have to use very sophisticated, very expensive weapons to do this kind of damage, and the recovery is very low tech – it’s just bulldozers.”
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Al Dhafra Air Base, UAE, before and after Iranian strikes:
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So if true here’s a big something why build another underground missile base if their missile production was supposedly halted or diminished to a trickle I’m telling you Iran has been moving a lot of their more important weapons production capabilities underground why invest doing that with their allies but not themselves
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old video of founder of Iran's missile force, Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, with current commander of IRGC's missile force, Majid Mousavi
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Huge respect and love for Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam. A martyr of the highest level. May Allah grant him highest honours in the paradise.
His missiles have wrecked havoc on the evil entity.
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The Iranian missile cities the US could not destroy
For 40 days, US and Israeli aircraft pounded the mountains around Yazd, trying to silence one of Iran’s most important military projects: a buried missile complex carved deep into the granite above the ancient desert city.Yet, according to residents, the Iranian missiles kept firing regardless. “US and Israeli forces kept bombing those mountains,” said one resident of Yazd. “And Iran kept launching missiles until the final moments before the ceasefire.”
While Donald Trump has focused on the damage done to the facilities, to Iranian officials and some outside analysts, the war has proved that the Islamic republic’s missile force can be suppressed — but not destroyed. Much of Tehran’s arsenal is ready again for the next confrontation.
A government insider said the war — and the fate of the missile cities — had fundamentally reinforced the leadership’s belief that military power, rather than diplomacy, remains the ultimate guarantor of security.
“More than ever before, we have concluded that building trust is a meaningless strategy,” he said. “Only strength can serve as a deterrent, not arguments in international forums about our rights. The enemy must be convinced of our capabilities and must never be allowed to miscalculate again. Iran is demonstrating in practice that it is prepared to go further than its adversaries.”
He claimed that the Yazd missile complex extended roughly 500 metres into the surrounding granite mountains and that it remained operational throughout the conflict. Bombings destroyed entrances to the missile cities, he said, but they were reopened relatively quickly.
Accounts from residents appear to back this up. “Often, only a few hours after a bombing, Iran would launch missiles from the same locations,” said one resident of Kermanshah province. “We couldn’t believe those facilities were surviving such intense attacks.”
And while the volume of missiles fired ebbed and flowed, Iran repeatedly showed that it was able to respond swiftly to US and Israeli strikes in like-for-like attacks, particularly using its short-range arsenal to hit energy facilities and other infrastructure in Persian Gulf states.
Nicole Grajewski, an assistant professor at Sciences Po, said evidence from the conflict suggested Iran was restoring access to parts of the network far more rapidly than many expected.
“We only discovered that during the later stages of the war because there’d be persistent strikes on a certain base and then Iran would fire from there,” she said. “They’re excavating quite a bit from the bases, but even during the war.”
She said the repeated pattern of strikes followed by launches suggested either rapid excavation, repairs to launch equipment or the use of decoys.
“The rapid kind of turnaround on cleaning up the missile bases during the war, at least enough to lob some missiles and make it operational, was very impressive,” she said.
A second person close to the Iranian government argued the depth of many sites rendered them largely immune to conventional aerial bombardment. He said some were not even used during the war because numerous other facilities remained operational.
Iran has significant tunnelling experience, developed through decades of building metro systems and long tunnels through mountainous terrain. But Grajewski said Iran drew crucial lessons from North Korea after a visit by Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the former head of the missile force who was assassinated by Israel last year. “He was also the head of the construction aspect of the missile force,” said Grajewski. “He went to North Korea, he saw their underground missile silos and he’s like: ‘This is great. We can actually defend ourselves and build these cities that you could have, you don’t necessarily need air defences’.”
“Today the guards are stronger than they were before the war,” said the second person close to the government. “Their standing within the system has risen dramatically because they fought under extraordinary pressure and continued launching missiles until the final moment.
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Weeks of bombardment appear to have only temporarily suppressed Tehran’s firepower hidden underground
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the legacy and gift to the nation of Iran from martyr Amir Ali Hajizadeh ...
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