Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that Israel carried out strikes on Iranian railways and bridges “used by the Revolutionary Guards,” following reports from Iranian officials of damage to at least two bridges and sections of railway infrastructure.
“We are crushing the terror regime in Iran… with even greater vigour and with increasing force,” Netanyahu said in a video released by his office.
“Yesterday, our pilots destroyed transport aircraft and dozens of helicopters at an Iranian Air Force base. Today they struck the railways and bridges used by the Revolutionary Guards.”
The Israeli military stated that it targeted “eight bridge segments that were utilised by the Iranian terror regime’s Armed Forces for transporting weapons and military equipment in several areas across Iran, including Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan, and Qom.”
Brigadier General Effie Defrin, an Israeli military spokesman, added on X that “air force pilots continue to deepen the damage to the Iranian terror regime.”
“We eliminated several regime commanders last night and struck key infrastructure it used,” he wrote.
The strikes came as US President Donald Trump issued a warning that “a whole civilisation will die” if Iran failed to meet a midnight deadline to allow free passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump had cautioned that unless Tehran opened the strategic oil chokepoint by midnight GMT, the United States would carry out what he described as the “complete demolition” of Iran’s critical infrastructure, including bridges and power plants.
