Iran live updates: Iran has 'thousands' of missiles and drones left

The Defense Intelligence Agency chief told lawmakers that Iran still has an enormous stockpile of munitions, even after the constant bombardment throughout the war until the ceasefire.

“Iran retains thousands of missiles and one-way attack UAVs that can threaten U.S. and partner forces throughout the region, despite degradations to its capabilities from both attrition and expenditure,” Marine Lt. Gen. James Adams, told lawmakers last week.

He added that Iran’s conventional military remains hampered by aging equipment and limited training, likely pushing Tehran to lean even harder into asymmetric tactics. That includes the kind of low-cost drone threats now looming over the Strait of Hormuz, a reminder that Iran can still create outsized disruption through cheap tools.

Those tactics also include cyberattacks.

“Before the current conflict, Iran largely refrained from cyberattacks against the United States, except for a handful of low level disruptive attacks,” Adams said. “However, on 11 March, we observed Iran’s first destructive cyberattack against a U.S. company since 2014, when Iranian cyberattacks conducted a data-deletion attack against a U.S. medical company. Iran almost certainly will continue using cyberattack.”

Adams was likely referring to when an Iranian-linked group hacked Stryker, a Michigan-based medical company. The day after the cyber-attack, Stryker pushed out a statement urging its tools were safe, including the Mako Surgical Robot, a robotic arm that assists in joint replacement surgeries and the LIFEPAK 35, a life support monitor/defibrillator.

Earlier this month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that Iran-linked cyber groups had targeted systems tied to local municipalities, as well as water and energy networks. In an advisory, the agency said organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors had suffered disruptions through “malicious interactions with the project files” and the manipulation of data.

Iran’s defense budget last year was $16.8 billion, which is about 4.2% of its GDP, according to Adams.

-ABC News' Steve Beynon

Iran's Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf criticized the U.S. blockade on Iran calling it "hostage-taking of the world's economy" and said a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz is "impossible," in a post on X Wednesday.

"A complete ceasefire only makes sense if it is not violated by the maritime blockade and the hostage-taking of the world’s economy, and if the Zionist warmongering across all fronts is halted; reopening the Strait of Hormuz is impossible with such a flagrant breach of the ceasefire," Ghalibaf said.

"They did not achieve their goals through military aggression, nor will they through bullying. The only way forward is to recognize the rights of the Iranian nation," Ghalibaf said.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he spoke with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Wednesday morning about the “way forward” in Iran.

Graham said that he expects the blockade of Iranian ports to stay in place and even expand, saying "it could become global soon” unless Iran “shows a commitment to change their ways."

Graham was not clear about where this blockade would expand and what the U.S. is specifically asking the Iranians to commit to in terms of "changing their ways."

"I had a very good call this morning with @POTUS and @SecWar Pete Hegseth about the way forward regarding the Iran conflict," Graham said in a post on X Wednesday.

"I not only expect this blockade to stay in place until Iran shows a commitment to change their ways, I expect the blockade will be growing and that it could become global soon,” he said.

Graham also issued a warning to other countries amid threats of a global blockade, saying that any nation "assisting or thinking about assisting the Iranian regime in distributing its oil," will do so "at your own peril."

President Donald Trump said that a renewed round of peace talks in the next 36 to 72 hours is "possible" in a text exchange with the New York Post Wednesday morning. The Post article cited sources saying that a new round of talks is possible as soon as Friday.

"It’s possible! President DJT," Trump said in a text message when asked about the possibility of those talks, according to the New York Post.