JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Iran is rebuilding parts of its ballistic missile program after U.S. and Israeli strikes damaged key facilities earlier in the conflict. At the same time, a suspected nuclear site and a major Houthi advance in Yemen are raising new concerns across the region.<\/p>\n
Tehran’s missile production involves using stockpiled\u00a0components and underground facilities while attempting to build new assembly sites designed to make future production harder to target.<\/p>\n
U.S. and Israeli strikes had destroyed the facilities needed to make missile components, while the current blockade is making it harder for Iran to import the parts it needs.<\/p>\n
At Jerusalem’s Western Wall on Thursday night, ahead of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Iran is rebuilding its nuclear capability.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Trump announced this evening that Iran is attempting to rearm… This is true,” Netanyahu stated.<\/p>\n
He stressed that Israel continues to target Iran and its regional allies, including Hamas and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are \u2026 delivering heavy blows not only in the Gaza Strip but also in Lebanon. We … are now dealing with the Ali Taher Ridge (in southern Lebanon).”\u00a0<\/p>\n
The prime minister also indicated that more military activity is coming.<\/p>\n
His warnings come as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports construction at Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, a site potentially connected to nuclear material.<\/p>\n
IAEA inspectors have been denied access to sites affected by the June 2025 strikes and can’t verify the current status of Iran’s nuclear weapons-grade uranium stockpile.<\/p>\n
President Trump, addressing the GOP Midterm Convention in Dallas, said his administration is watching the site.<\/p>\n
“We can read it from space,” he told the crowd. “We notice there’s a little activity at Pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard. We have no choice, right?”<\/p>\n
***Please sign up for\u00a0CBN Newsletters<\/a>\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app<\/a>\u00a0to ensure you receive\u00a0the latest news from a Christian perspective.***<\/p>\n On the Arabian Peninsula, the Iranian-backed Houthis have seized control of Yemen’s port city of Mocha, which strengthened their chokehold on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key shipping route connecting the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden.<\/p>\n U.S. officials indicate that Iran has directed the Houthis to intensify attacks on Saudi Arabia and promised additional funding, weapons, and senior officers.<\/p>\n At the same time, approximately 100 U.S. military personnel are now operating in Saudi Arabia, part of a newly established Joint Forces Command that shares intelligence to support Saudi attacks on the Houthis.<\/p>\n Washington, meanwhile, is tightening economic pressure on Iran with new sanctions targeting supporters of Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies in Iraq, Lebanon, and Turkey.<\/p>\n In southern Lebanon, Israel claims to have destroyed a major Hezbollah underground network approximately four miles from Israel’s border. More than 1,100 tons of explosives demolished eight tunnels spanning more than a mile.<\/p>\n The complex included command centers, Iranian-made weapons and rockets, and storage rooms and living quarters that allowed fighters to remain underground for long periods.<\/p>\n Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz released a video statement ahead of the Jewish New Year, 5787, saying, “To the people of Iran, I wish, next year, a Tehran liberated from oppression and tyranny…”<\/p>\n He told Iran’s leadership that any attack during the holidays would bring a powerful response, warning, “A blow would set\u00a0Iran back decades and further destabilize the Ayatollahs’ regime\u00a0\u2013 a regime the Iranian people loathe so deeply and whose downfall they fervently desire.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Iran is rebuilding parts of its ballistic missile program after U.S. and Israeli strikes damaged key…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-614514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614514","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=614514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}