LONDON, July 28. /TASS/. Iran has maintained the combat capability of its missile forces and adapted to new conditions after five months of US strikes, the Financial Times (FT) reported, citing experts.

According to analysts, Iranian engineers managed to quickly restore underground facilities after the bombings. Former Iran-focused military analyst with the CIA Jim Lamson believes that recent strikes on US bases in Jordan, which killed service members, demonstrate Iran's ability to penetrate US and Arab missile defenses.

"It seems that in Jordan they [Iranian forces] have been able to get increased penetration of missile defences and increased accuracy for their medium-range ballistic missiles. <...> Iran is making both technical and tactical tweaks from lessons learned in past conflicts," he added.

According to Farzin Nadimi, an expert on the Iranian military at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "it is becoming increasingly difficult to defend against ballistic missiles at destination or during their terminal phase". "There needs to be Israeli involvement," the expert said.

Shortly after the US launched a joint attack with Israel on Iran in late February, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that among the aims of the operation were to "destroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production".

However, the newspaper wrote that five months later, after hundreds of US airstrikes, Iran has managed to preserve the combat capability of its missile forces and continues to carry out precision strikes against targets in the region, including in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The latest escalation in US-Iran tensions began on July 8, when US forces launched several waves of strikes on Iranian territory for the first time since Washington and Tehran signed the memorandum of understanding, saying they were responding to an attack on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. Later that day, US President Donald Trump announced the termination of the ceasefire with Iran.

In response, Tehran began striking US facilities across the Middle East in Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE and Oman.

On July 24, the sides halted exchanges of strikes.