IDF Shifts Fire to Tehran Oil Depots After Neutralizing Majority of Iran’s Missile Launchers

Targeting an adversary’s fuel network to cripple its military echoes the Allied oil-field raids on Ploiești in 1943 and the 1991 Desert Storm attacks on Iraq’s refineries; both aimed to erode combat capacity faster than frontline attrition could. The pivot from launch sites to logistics shows the perennial logic of modern air campaigns: once immediate threats are blunted, cut the arteries that feed them. Yet history also warns—Serbia 1999, Libya 2011—that airpower plus talk of regime change rarely guarantees political collapse and can entrench resistance or invite proxy escalation. This moment matters because, if sustained, it tests the 21st-century proposition that precision strikes and economic strangulation alone can topple a large theocracy without large-scale ground invasion—an experiment whose outcome will inform doctrine and deterrence calculus for decades, especially as energy hubs and missile factories become standard bullseyes in peer conflicts.