IRGC aerospace advisor says Iran can sustain current missile firing rates for years and the era of attacks without response is over

Statements of this kind from IRGC-linked figures function primarily as deterrence signalling rather than operational disclosure, and claims about sustaining missile rates are best read against the known constraint that inventories, production capacity and launcher survivability have historically been the binding variables in attritional exchanges of this sort. The operative phrase is the assertion that attacks will no longer go unanswered, since past cycles in this theatre have tended to turn on whether retaliation is calibrated for signalling or for escalation: the former has typically produced telegraphed, limited strikes followed by de-escalatory back-channels, the latter has pulled in shipping, energy infrastructure and proxy actors. The transmission channel for markets runs through the Gulf: crude risk premia, tanker freight and war-risk insurance in the Strait of Hormuz, and Gulf sovereign spreads, with the severity set by whether flows are actually interrupted rather than by rhetoric alone. Worth watching is whether the language is matched by observable posture changes, mobilisation, launcher dispersal, proxy activation, and whether the counterparty side responds in kind or seeks an off-ramp, since prior episodes have shown the gap between declaratory and actual capacity is often wide. As a single advisor's comment rather than a supreme leader or government statement, it sits in the lower tier of Iranian signalling hierarchy.