⚡️🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Senior IDF Officials Warn Cabinet of Potential Iranian Missile Retaliation Amid Crippling U.S. Blockades and Economic Collapse, — THE JERUSALEM POST.

​➡️ Senior Israel Defense Forces officials briefed members of the Security Cabinet on Sunday, expressing deep concern that Tehran could miscalculate and launch ballistic missiles at Israel as mounting U.S. economic and military pressure severely degrades the Iranian state. While direct kinetic strikes have experienced a lull following President Donald Trump’s announced two-week ceasefire on April 7—with Iran launching missiles at Israel only once since that time—military leadership warns that accelerating domestic deterioration heightens escalation risks.

​➡️ Presenting intelligence assessments to the cabinet, Military Intelligence Directorate chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder emphasized that the combined U.S. maritime and air blockade is proving "very effective." Binder noted that American forces maintain firm control over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, outmatching Iranian naval posture. This enforcement has been severely compounded by a strict air blockade initiated two weeks prior, including sweeping September 23 U.S. sanctions targeting 27 Iranian airlines by cutting their fuel suppliers and ground-handling services off from the dollar-based financial system, prompting widespread international landing bans.

​➡️ High-ranking defense officials informed ministers that these comprehensive interdiction measures are inflicting profound structural shocks on Iran’s economy, concluding that "the situation is deteriorating. Every day, it gets worse." Stressing the trajectory of the campaign, officials assessed that if President Trump maintains persistent economic and military pressure, the strategic outcome will continue along a positive path for allied deterrence.

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