{"id":478704,"date":"2026-06-06T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478704\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:46:08","slug":"only-21-of-irans-missile-capacity-left-donald-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478704\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 21% of Iran’s missile capacity left, Donald Trump says"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump<\/a> claimed that Iran\u2019s military has been \u201ctotally destroyed\u201d and only has around 21% of its missile capacity left after US-Israeli strikes, during an interview with NBC News\u2019s Kristen Welker on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know where their drones are, and we know where their drone factories are. Most of the drone factories have been knocked out\u2026 and most of the missile manufacturing areas have been knocked out,\u201d Trump asserted.<\/p>\n

When asked if he knew exactly how many missiles<\/a> and drones Iran still holds, Trump said he did not want to tell Welker but that he knows \u201calmost to the number\u201d how many of such weapons remain in Tehran\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have some missiles. They have some drones,\u201d Trump stated, adding that percentage-wise, Iran maintains \u201cmaybe 21%, 22% of their missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He clarified that the percentage is still \u201ca lot of missiles,\u201d but it is greatly less than what Iran had before US-Israeli strikes began on February 28.<\/p>\n

When asked why the US and Iran have not yet reached a peace deal after rounds of negotiations, Trump attributed the prolonged process to Iranian leadership<\/a> being \u201cproud.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they can’t believe they’re in the situation where they’ve been virtually decapitated,\u201d Trump stated. \u201cThey’re proud. There are things they never thought they’d be doing that they’re going to have to do. They’ve got no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday<\/a>, Trump claimed to reporters at the White House that negotiations between the US and Iran are “going well.”<\/p>\n

“It might not happen,” Trump said in reference to a possible final agreement, before adding that “it could happen over the weekend.”<\/p>\n

He stated that while it would be \u201cvery easy\u201d for the US military to renew strikes against Iran, he would rather \u201cget something down in writing which will accomplish the same thing without killing everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reuters and Tzvi Jasper contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump claimed that Iran\u2019s military has been \u201ctotally destroyed\u201d and only has around 21% of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,42,87,12157,43,157282,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-478704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-missiles","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}