Iran and the US
Estimates before the war indicated its stockpiles might stretch to 2,500 ballistic missiles—if that is correct, only a fifth have been used and counted. The regime may be keeping some in reserve, perhaps anticipating a longer war. Sidharth Kaushal of the Royal United Services Institute, a think-tank, reckons that, given stocks of short-range ballistic and anti-ship missiles, as well as mines, its “capacity to do damage in the Gulf is likely to be resilient”.
