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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 The war just changed target sets. Today it's Iran's petrochemicals. U.S.-Israeli strikes hit the Mahshahr Special Petrochemical Zone this morning, 3 companies inside the complex, 5 wounded, extent of damage still unknown. A projectile also landed near the Bushehr nuclear plant perimeter, killing one guard. This isn't incidental. Israel's political leadership explicitly instructed the IDF weeks ago to shift toward "economic targets." Maximum financial damage to the regime rather than pure military degradation. Today is that doctrine in action. Mahshahr is one of Iran's most important industrial hubs; petrochemicals, export revenue, the economic backbone of Khuzestan province. Here's why it matters strategically: you can hide launchers in tunnels. You can't hide a refinery. The theory is simple: if airstrikes can't fully destroy what's underground, destroy what keeps the regime financially solvent above ground. Hit the economy hard enough and the calculus for Tehran changes. But there's a second-order problem. Iran has already threatened "devastating strikes" on U.S. and allied economic assets in response. Kuwait's Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery is already on fire. UAE's Habshan gas facility took damage. The Strait of Hormuz is still effectively closed. Economic warfare cuts both ways. And right now, both sides are picking up the scissors. Source: ToI, Al Jazeera