Israel Nears End of Military Targets in Iran, Shifts Focus to Economic Strikes – Times of Israel
A month into the war with Iran, the Israeli military has almost completed bombing all of the targets it defined for itself at the start of the conflict, and has now been ordered by Israel’s political leadership to shift to targeting “economic” targets of the Iranian regime, The Times of Israel has learned.
Israel’s defense establishment is now in what it described as the “completion phase” of the goals it set out at the start of the war, meaning it believes it has largely achieved its objectives of degrading Iran’s military capabilities and “creating the conditions” for the Iranian regime to fall.
As the IDF has almost completed bombing all of Iran’s weapon production sites, Israeli leaders have ordered the military to carry out strikes on targets that cause economic blows to the Iranian regime.
This included a strike on major Iranian gas infrastructure in the country’s south nearly two weeks ago, and strikes on two of Iran’s largest steel factories on Friday. In both cases, Israel aimed to cause massive economic damage to the Iranian regime.
Additional such strikes against Iranian economic targets are planned by Israel’s defense establishment, aimed at causing more damage to the regime.
