President Donald Trump appears to be making good on his threat to strike Iran’s logistical network, as regime-run media reports airstrikes on roads, bridges and an airport in the south of the country. “The US may have begun hitting bridges after Donald Trump threatened to start striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran,” Sky News (UK) noted Friday. “The latest US attacks overnight targeted bridges in the south of Iran, state news agency IRNA reported.”
The strikes seem to be targeting Iran’s ability to move troops and weaponry. Citing regime-controlled news outlets, the BBC reported that “bridges, a train station and an airport were hit.”
The latest round of strikes is consistent with the U.S. strategy of targeting Iran’s military-related infrastructure. In early April, a joint U.S.-Israeli strike hit a key bridge connecting Tehran to Karaj city. The bridge, the tallest in the Middle East, was being used to transport components of ballistic missiles and attack drones.
U.S Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday night confirmed that it targeted the regime’s “military logistics infrastructure,” in what it described as a “major wave of strikes against Iran.”
According to CENTCOM, “U.S. forces, including fighter jets, aerial drones, and warships, launched precision munitions that hit dozens of Iranian military targets such as coastal surveillance and air defense sites, military logistics infrastructure, and maritime capabilities.”
Multiple strikes were reported at the airport in the southern Iranian city of Iranshahr. “Three blasts were heard around Iranshahr airport in the south-east and at least one US projectile hit,” The Guardian newspaper reported. “Bandar Abbas station in the southern port city was also targeted and an Iranian official report spoke of airstrikes on two bridges in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province (…), according to state and semi-official media.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared a picture on X of a crumbling control tower apparently hit in a U.S. strike. News reports suggest that it could be the maritime control tower in the southern Iranian city of Chabahar.
The U.S strikes are in retaliation for Iranian attempts to control the Strait of Hormuz and unprovoked missile and drone attacks on neighbouring Arab states. Iran, on Friday, hit a water and power plant in Kuwait, a predominantly desert country.
“Iran launched new missile attacks against U.S.-allied nations in the Middle East, including Qatar, a key mediator in the war. It also damaged a power and water desalination plant in Kuwait — something crucial in the small, desert nation,” the Associated Press reported.
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