IRGC Commander Naqdi said Iran produces more missiles daily than it fires and that, even if the war lasts years, Iran's rockets will continue to be launched until the final day

IRGC Commander Naqdi said Iran produces more missiles daily than it fires and that, even if the war lasts years, Iran's rockets will continue to be launched until the final day.

Statements of this kind from IRGC figures are a recurring feature of wartime signalling: their function is to counter adversary claims of depleted arsenals and to frame the conflict as one of attrition in which Iran's production base outlasts its opponent's interceptors. The substantive question such rhetoric raises is the arithmetic of missile versus interceptor inventories, which in comparable exchanges has been the actual constraint on escalation: daily launch tempo, stockpile depth, and production throughput matter more than any single salvo. Claims of production exceeding expenditure are standard posture and difficult to verify independently, so the historical pattern has been for crude and freight markets to price the physical flow rather than the rhetoric, with the risk premium tracking whether supply infrastructure, Gulf shipping lanes, or insurance costs are actually touched. Worth noting is that sustained attritional messaging tends to lower the probability of a near-term negotiated pause, since it signals willingness to absorb a longer conflict. The follow-ons that have mattered in past episodes are any observable change in launch frequency, strikes on production facilities, and third-party mediation moves rather than further statements.