An Israeli military source on Wednesday evening stated that Iran's energy infrastructure is definitively in Israel's crosshairs. The one-line statement, circulated on security-affiliated channels, did not indicate a specific timeframe or operational details, but comes amid a rapid escalation of direct US-Israel kinetic pressure on Iran over the past 24 hours.
An Israeli military source signaled Wednesday evening that Iran's energy grid is a designated target set — the shortest and most direct such threat since the current round of direct US-Israeli operations against Iran began.
The statement — "Iranian energy infrastructure is definitively on the crosshairs" — was posted in a single line on a security-affiliated the source at 21:41. It carries no attribution beyond the sourcing channel's own description of the speaker as a military source, and no timestamp for any planned operation. It is the most explicit Israeli threat to Iran's energy sector this week.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Wednesday, US President Trump told Fox News he is close to ordering strikes on Iranian power plants and bridges (14:40 headline), and a senior US official stated that Israel intends to strike major Iranian facilities (20:43). At 21:08, large US military air movements were observed, assessed as possibly signaling an imminent new wave of strikes. The new Israeli source statement aligns with and sharpens that trajectory — targeting energy infrastructure specifically, rather than nuclear or military sites alone.
The single-source claim remains unverified by additional channels. No official Israeli military spokesperson has confirmed or elaborated on the statement. The bulletin on the same channel is titled "Iran in the crosshairs" and includes a link to an Israeli-Iran monitoring account, but no additional detail.
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