Iran retains more than 1,000 ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel, an Israeli Air Force intelligence officer said in an interview with Channel 12 news.

“The Iranians have more than 1,000 missiles that are capable of reaching Israel,” said Lt. Col. “Tet,” who heads missile and drone research within the Air Intelligence Group, the IAF’s intelligence unit.

At the outset of the war, the IDF estimated Iran’s ballistic missile stockpile at approximately 2,500. Since then, Iran has fired more than 500 missiles at Israel and hundreds more at other targets across the Middle East, with potentially hundreds of additional missiles destroyed in strikes.

The pace of Iranian missile fire at Israel has slowed considerably in recent weeks, dropping to roughly 10 to 15 per day from a peak of around 90 on the first day of the conflict. Israeli military assessments have held that launches will continue for as long as the war is active, and that the rate could increase.

The intelligence officer said he does not expect the launches to stop entirely. “In all honesty, I assess it will not reach zero,” he told Channel 12. “I think they will continue to launch ballistic missiles. I don’t think it will be significantly more than what we have seen.”

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