Majid Ebn-e Reza, Aug. 5 -- TEHRAN - Iran's acting defense minister said weapons production "never stopped for a single day" during the June ceasefire memorandum with the United States, as army officials confirmed this week that Tehran spent the diplomatic pause rebuilding and expanding capabilities depleted in five months of strikes by American and Israeli forces.

drone output has tripled compared with pre-war rates. The IRGC's spokesman, Hossein Mohebbi, confirmed that roughly 70 percent of Iran's pre-war ballistic missile stockpile remained intact, even after the prolonged air and sea campaign that opened February 28. What Iran lost in drones during the conflict's opening weeks, it has been systematically replacing.

The June 18 memor...