The IDF announced Tuesday that it expects to complete the destruction of all pre-war targets in Iran’s top two priority categories by Wednesday.

The targets span what the IDF classifies as “critical” and “essential” — together representing 100 percent of the highest-priority pre-war target set, and roughly 60 to 70 percent of all pre-war targets in Iran, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Critical targets were those deemed to pose an immediate threat to Israel, including facilities tied to Iran’s ballistic missile industry and the remaining components of its nuclear program. Essential targets represented a tier below — elements of Iran’s broader military-industrial complex that, while not posing an imminent threat in this conflict, were considered by Iran to be vital to sustaining its long-term weapons production and military capabilities. That category included satellite-launch and satellite-attack platforms, which the IDF identified as central to Iran’s ability to fire long-range weapons and to compete with Israel’s strategic edge in the satellite domain.

The remaining 30 to 40 percent of pre-war targets cover aspects of Iranian military infrastructure tied to long-term, non-strategic operations — neither an immediate threat to Israel nor part of the core supply chain for producing strategic weapons.

Asked whether Israel could declare its war objectives against Iran’s military achieved at this stage, IDF sources did not reject the notion, but said that if the fighting continued, the military could expand its target set to include economic and operational targets that would further degrade Iran’s military capacity and economic standing.

One significant limitation remains: despite the scale of the campaign, the IDF has been unable to fully suppress Iranian ballistic missile fire, and military officials said they expect Iran to sustain launches at a rate of between 5 and 20 missiles for an extended period.

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