Iran’s missile production has not been disrupted following Israeli airstrikes in the Islamic Republic on October 26, Defense Minister Aziz Nazirzadeh said, according to state media.

On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad congratulated Israeli pilots for damaging Iran’s missile production capabilities in airstrikes carried out in retaliation for Iran’s Oct. 1 barrage of missiles against Israel.

“Their supplies are now down, and that’s affecting their calculations. Their offensive and defensive abilities have weakened,” Gallant said.

Two US researchers told Reuters last week that the Israeli strikes hit buildings used by Iran to mix solid fuel for ballistic missiles and that this “may have significantly hampered Iran’s ability to mass-produce missiles”.

“The enemy sought to damage our defensive and offensive systems, but it was not very successful because we had made arrangements and we knew it,” Iran’s defense minister said today.

“The (production) knowledge is indigenous, so there is no disruption in the missile manufacturing process,” Nazirzadeh said, also implying that a defense system may have been damaged in the attack as he said it was “replaced the next day.”

Iranian state media also reported yesterday, Tuesday, that Nazirzadeh said the country still had the ability to “carry out another dozen missile strikes” against Israel like those on October 1 and April 13.