Do you know 10,000 ballistic missiles – each takes one to two tonsExplosive – Can be equally, or even more,DestructionCompared to a Hiroshima-style atomic bomb?
Before Israel’s three strikes over the Iranian region, the most resulting-Iran in 2025 was running towards mass production of accurate-directed ballistic missiles in 2025. It was not imaginary. Tehran was preparing for floods in Israeli airspace with thousands of advanced rockets designed to overwhelm the arrow, David’s sling and Iron Dome.
Editor-in-Chief ofIsrael timeIt is written that it was an integrated, integrated decision of Israeli intelligence and military heads, causing an forecast strike. The country was not just a week from an nuclear breakout – it was on the verge of deploying a missile arsenal with the power to disable the Israeli economy, overwhelm its defense and incite a large -scale civilian casualties.
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashmi Rafsanjani once infamous called Israel as “One-Bam Desh”. Today, that warning must be updated: Israel is now a “10,000-mesile country.”
According to experienced Israeli journalistRon ben-yishaiIsraeli Intelligence concluded that Tehran was preparing to produce 10,000 ballistic missiles with a destructive force equal to two atomic bombs. Israel’s October 2024 strike at Iran’s solid-fuel production sites is expected to slow down the program, proved to be highly optimistic. Iran replied by accelerating production.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry It was later said that Iran was going into a missile manufacturing on an industrial scale. Iran was on the track to become the world’s leading missile manufacturer, which included intercontinental ballistic missiles, able to reach Europe, enough for city blocks with payloads.
As a senior Israeli official explained, “We worked due to the dangers of two existence. One was a atom …, the other ballistic … This threat existed as an atomic bomb for us.”
While most of the world has been narrowly focused on uranium enrichment, Israeli Intelligence had already concluded that Iran’s ballistic missile buildup raised an equally immediate and imminent danger. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly cited Iran’s missile expansion as a major reason for the June 2025 operation.
Nevertheless, the global media coverage of the 12-day Iran-Israel struggle ignored a large strategic argument for Israeli attacks. The headlines focused on the limited number of Iranian missiles, which enter Israel’s defense. Whatever was remembered was a more dangerous trajectory, was on Iran: the creation of a missile force that was able to saturate and even sideline the most sophisticated defense systems.
This is why recent reports that President Trump’s messenger, Steve Witcoff, can discover one.AtomAlong with Iran – a one who excludes any restriction on missile development – has deeply concerned Israel’s defense and intelligence installation. Trump has refused to offer reliefs or cash incentives to restrictions, but the concern is that the United States may entertain a deal that fails to address Iran’s expansion missile threat.
This is not a theoretical inspection. Iran has already adapted its military currency after each major clash – April 2024, October 2024 and June 2025 – Israel and US defense improvement improves its ability to avoid. Unlike the low-range launched by proxy groups such as Hizbullah or Hauthis, Iran’s homegron missiles are long range, heavy and more disastrous-designed to reach deep into the urban centers of Israel and important infrastructure, which produce maximum amounts of terror on citizens.
A nuclear-conclusion will not be a prudent diplomacy with the relief of restrictions ignoring Iran’s missile program. It will be strategic self-dhokhe. In such an agreement, the rule in Tehran will reduce the Israeli prevention, and will definitely invite to move forward in the entire region. Regional instability will be followed.
As Israel National News Recently it has been reported, Iran’s missile Arsenal has been spread in rigid bunkers, civil neighborhoods and remote mountain ranges. These missiles are not going to disappear with handshake. Constant diplomatic pressure, rigorous inspection, applied limitations, and crimes require results to bring back this danger, some Iran hates to agree.
Let us hope that the report of a flawed nuclear deal is left uniformly dangerous missile threat. However, if they are accurate, the Congress and American people need to understand what is at stake. An effective agreement should close all the escalatery routes in Iran, not only atoms one. Failing to address Iran’s missile program in conversation would be a strategic error for America and an existent risk for our colleague, Israel.
Eric R. Mandel is the director of the Middle East Political Information Network and Senior Security Editor for Jerusalem Post’s Jerusalem Post.
