{"id":326987,"date":"2026-05-14T06:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326987"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:43:25","slug":"iranian-press-review-unexploded-us-tomahawks-used-to-develop-missile-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326987","title":{"rendered":"Iranian press review: Unexploded US Tomahawks used to develop missile technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heber Nasser \u2013 Middle East Eye May 12, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Tehran builds new technology from captured US missiles\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Iranian<\/a> armed forces are reverse-engineering US-made Tomahawk missiles recovered during the\u00a0US-Israeli war<\/a> to replicate their technology, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official Mehr news agency.<\/p>\n

Mehr reported<\/a> that missiles shot down by Iran\u2019s air defences or those that failed to explode after impact are now being studied by military engineers.<\/p>\n

Mehr said some of the Tomahawk missiles were recovered partly intact after their detonation systems failed or were disrupted by Iran\u2019s electronic warfare capabilities.<\/p>\n

The agency said Iran is using these missiles to develop its own missile systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 40-day war, Iran\u2019s strategy switched to gaining knowledge from the battlefield. Every Tomahawk missile that landed and did not explode was an advanced textbook for Iranian engineers,\u201d Mehr reported.<\/p>\n

Mehr’s claim has not been confirmed by other sources. However, Iranian officials have said they have detonated or neutralised American and Israeli munitions since a ceasefire took effect on 7 April.<\/p>\n

On the last day of the war, the ILNA<\/a> news agency published an image showing an unexploded missile that struck part of Tehran\u2019s Grand Bazaar, identifying it as a Tomahawk.<\/p>\n

Iran has faced international sanctions on buying and selling weapons since 1979. Over the decades, it has used similar methods to develop its own missiles and drones.<\/p>\n

Uncertainty over housing for people displaced by war<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Conflicting reports on temporary accommodation have left people who lost their homes in Tehran during the 40-day war unsure where they will stay.<\/p>\n

Since the war began, Tehran\u2019s municipality has said residents whose homes were destroyed in US-Israeli attacks could stay in city hotels for free until they found new housing or rebuilt their homes.<\/p>\n

But on Saturday, the Etemad<\/a> daily reported that some displaced Iranians staying in hotels in the capital had been told to leave by the end of the week and find\u00a0alternative housing.<\/p>\n

One resident, whose home was severely damaged in an explosion, told Etemad: \u201cI have nowhere to go. The fire department and the Red Crescent say my house is uninhabitable. Even if it was not destroyed, there are no stairs left in the building for me to reach my apartment.\u201d<\/p>\n

A day after the report, Tehran Municipality spokesperson Abdolmotahar Mohammadkhani said<\/a> those affected should contact the municipality so their cases could be handled.<\/p>\n

He said the city had placed 6,677 people in 45 hotels and housing complexes, adding: \u201cAs long as their housing problems are not solved, the municipality will cover all accommodation costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian scientists and engineers are reverse engineering unexploded Tomahawk cruise missiles, as they did previously with seized U.S. drones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":316918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326988,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326987\/revisions\/326988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/316918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}