Major construction ongoing near Iran missile bases, satellite images suggest

New roofs have been built on destroyed buildings at the Kermanshah missile base in western Iran, near the border with Iraq, while damaged buildings and debris have been cleared at the Parchin military complex – which has been repeatedly repaired despite a succession of air strikes – east of the capital.The excavations near Shahroud could potentially be related to the production of missiles, said Jim Lamson, a former CIA analyst….

He said that because the nearby air base at Shahroud has been targeted multiple times in recent years, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is probably trying to find ways to move its production facilities underground.A MAIAR analyst noted that Iran has "a pattern of moving infrastructure underground to protect them from further strikes".

Mark Mellett, a defence analyst and former head of the Irish military, said the construction of underground facilities had the added benefit of making it "harder for outside observers to assess the extent and operational status".Speculation has mounted in recent weeks that the US could resume attacks on Iran after the midterm elections held earlier this week.

But on Wednesday Vice-President JD Vance cited the war's unpopularity with voters for the Republicans' poor performance in this week's poll, saying that it may have cost his party control of the Senate "for the next 6 years".At multiple bases across the country, Iranian forces have focused on carrying-out small-scale repairs to complexes which have been heavily damaged by air strikes since the start of the US-Israeli war.Analysts said that….

At Karaj, multiple vehicles were visible in satellite images, while improvements appear to have been carried out to the nearby airbase.The images from Karaj appear to show "a new portal for an underground facility", says Sam Lair, research analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), which has looked extensively into recent developments at Iranian sites.The construction work is unlikely to be part of an effort to deceive foreign intelligence….

He said such a project "would be costly and may achieve little".The developments come after repeated assurances from the White House that US-Israeli attacks have depleted the Iranian armed forces, which US President Donald Trump dismissed as a "complete and total mess".A Pentagon spokesperson previously said that the US had "destroyed up to 90% of Iran's drone, ballistic missile, and naval industrial base" and "significantly degraded" the country's ability to….

Back in August, state TV footage also claimed to show Khordad surface-to-air missiles emerging out of a tunnel near the southern city of Bandar Abbas.A MAIAR analyst also identified new construction and excavations outside tunnel entrances near the city of Qom, close to the Fordo underground uranium enrichment complex, which has been bombed by both the US and Israel multiple times.Activity related to military assets would show that Tehran is….

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Evidence of digging and new buildings are visible in satellite imagery taken in November, satellite images suggest.