Iran could launch military strikes as early as this fall, targeting a list of high-value assets to shatter increasing U.S.economic sanctions, national security analysts warned Thursday.The warning came as the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, or ADNOC, reported that two vessels were struck transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency.ADNOC said there were no injuries and the situation was under control, according to Reuters, and as the UAE foreign ministry condemned the Iranian attacks.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent also said Thursday that Washington was preparing to take unprecedented economic action against Iran."Watch this space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history of economic isolation on a country," Bessent said in an interview on Newsmax.Iranian forces could shift to guerrilla-style hit-and-run attacks to exploit the U.S.
troop buildup in the Gulf.(Photo by AFP via Getty Image)Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital that Tehran is likely to step up military pressure as Washington intensifies sanctions."Come early fall, what we can expect is for them to kinetically push back against Trump's economic policy," Taleblu said.
"If the president is re-embracing economic pressure as a management approach, just like we saw in 2019, then the regime will use kinetic pressure to try to find a way to break out of that economic containment."Ben Taleblu said shrinking oil revenues and the U.S.naval blockade could also drive Tehran to expand its target list across the region.Iranian ballistic missiles are displayed during the ceremony of joining the Armed Forces.
Sources are now saying Iran has sent these missiles to Russia.(Iran's Presidency/WANA/West Asia News Agency/Handout/REUTERS)"This means they would embrace the kinetic tool, and that's how they wo...