Ibn Reza said Iran’s defense innovation cycle should become increasingly problem-oriented, and the defense industry must focus on addressing the operational needs of the armed forces. Iran’s future defense industry, he said, would be built through closer cooperation with universities, knowledge-based companies, and the scientific community. He said the recent war had reshaped Iran’s defense doctrine, management approaches, threat assessment, and industrial vision. Addressing efforts to undermine Iran’s defense industry by targeting strategic facilities, Ibn Reza said such attempts had failed to achieve their objectives. “Those who believed targeting Iran’s strategic defense centers would halt the defense industry are now facing a completely different reality.”