{"id":27488,"date":"2026-03-20T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27488\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T00:47:11","slug":"how-long-will-us-israel-war-on-iran-last-chinese-analysts-offer-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/27488\/","title":{"rendered":"How long will US-Israel war on Iran last? Chinese analysts offer clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s missile and drone stockpiles will last another two or three months as <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3347189\/severely-damaged-how-us-israel-war-iran-decoupling-gulf-security?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">US-Israeli strikes continue<\/a>, while the US military is also depleting its interceptors, Chinese analysts have noted.However, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3345492\/guide-how-iran-war-has-ricocheted-across-middle-east-and-beyond?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">how long<\/a> the war lasts would depend less on stockpiles alone than on the effectiveness of new US deployments and President Donald Trump\u2019s political calculus, one of them cautioned.Iran has continued its attacks on Israel and on US assets across the Middle East since the conflict was triggered on February 28 by US-Israeli strikes targeting its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3345910\/who-mojtaba-khamenei-son-and-successor-irans-supreme-leader?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">top leadership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the pace of Iranian missile and drone launches appears to have eased since the early days.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hu Bo, director of the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, said Iran\u2019s ballistic missile stockpile was likely to be down to its final 30 per cent, with probably fewer than 1,000 units left in its arsenal, as indicated by open-source intelligence.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But Iran had significant drone advantages, he noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s missile and drone stockpiles will last another two or three months as US-Israeli strikes continue, while the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[38,12851,34,37,35,49,12850,1403,11847,12852,106,101,4339,51,4450],"class_list":{"0":"post-27488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-hu-bo","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kuwait","13":"tag-middle-east","14":"tag-patriot","15":"tag-pentagon","16":"tag-shahed","17":"tag-south-china-sea-strategic-situation-probing-initiative","18":"tag-south-korea","19":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","20":"tag-thaad","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-washington-post"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116258749947108897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}