🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Israel shifts to hitting Iran’s economy, as it enters ‘completion phase’ of war

Leaders order IDF to cause economic damage to Iranian regime, after nearly finishing bombing all military targets outlined at start of campaign

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 hitting “economic” targets of the Iranian regime, The Times of Israel learned on Monday.

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, The Times of Israel has learned.

The Times of Israel has learned that the defense establishment believes that the Iranian weapon production capabilities have been severely degraded, setting Iran back years. The goal of “creating the conditions” for the Iranian regime to topple has also been achieved “above and beyond,” according to the defense establishment, although it still remains unclear when, or if, the Iranian population will rise up against its oppressive government.

As the IDF has almost completed bombing all of Iran’s weapon production sites, Israeli leaders, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, 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, according to security sources.

📝: Iran will retaliate and destroy Israel's economy and industry.

The evidence supporting the IDF's claims about the destruction of Iran's missile production capabilities "setting it back years" isn't supported. Iran has underground factories that are unreachable by even the most advance bunker busting bombs. Israel is bombing Iran's business and industrial sector because they can't destroy Iranian missile bases nor the launchers nor the factories. They have no other option and this carries the risk of seeing Israel's economy being destroyed in the process.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-shifts-to-hitting-irans-economy-as-it-enters-completion-phase-of-war/

🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳📝: After WW2, US made up nearly 50% of the world's manufacturing output.

China just topped that. Let that sink in.

If US thinks fight against China will be a replay of Pacific War, then US today would be Imperial Japan in 1941, China would the US at the end of WW2.

🔗 Carl Zha

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 The IRGC released satellite imagery of the Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft which was destroyed at the Prince Sultan Airbase a few days ago.

The U.S. stated that it was "damaged" when imagery shows the aircraft was destroyed.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 U.S. Marines Are Rushing to Join the War on Iran

USS Tripoli (LHA-7), an America-class amphibious assault ship, and USS New Orleans (LPD-18), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, were both spotted yesterday transiting the Strait of Malacca en route to the Middle East.

🔗 EGYOSINT

🤖 Apple won the AI race by doing nothing

Apple let other tech companies spend trillions developing AI models and picked the winner, Gemini, paying Google a measly $1 billion forcing competitors to plug their models into Siri if they want access to 2.5B Apple users.

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🇰🇷🚫🚙 South Korea Weighs First Public Driving Restrictions in 35 Years

South Korea is weighing the possibility to extend driving curbs from civil servants’ use of vehicles to the general public if oil prices hit $120 per barrel, Finance Minister Koo Yun Cheol said.

If enacted, such a measure would be the first in South Korea since 1991 during the Gulf war.

Early on Monday, oil prices were rising by over 2% with Brent Crude topping $115 per barrel amid an escalating conflict which now involves the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.

South Korea has already restricted access by vehicle to government buildings in a rotating system based on the last digit of the license plates.

“We are reviewing whether to extend the system to the private sector to encourage public cooperation, but we hope the war ends soon so that such measures won’t be necessary,” the finance minister told broadcaster KBS on Sunday, as carried by Bloomberg.

“If the Middle East situation worsens, the crisis alert would have to move up to the ‘warning’ stage, and around that point we would need to curb consumption,” Koo added in the remarks carried by Reuters.

South Korea imports most of the crude it consumes from the Middle East and is one of the most exposed Asian importers to Qatari LNG, which is now offline.

South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore are most vulnerable to the loss of Qatari term LNG supply following its force majeure declaration, Vortexa’s LNG analyst Ken Lee said earlier this month.

🔗 https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/South-Korea-Weighs-First-Public-Driving-Restrictions-in-35-Years.html