US Strikes Iran’s Bridges and Bandar Abbas Port on a Sixth Night
American forces widened their campaign against Iran overnight, striking five road and rail bridges in Hormozgan province in an apparent bid to sever the port city of Bandar Abbas from its links to Tehran. US Central Command said precision munitions hit dozens of military targets near Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island, collapsed a tower at the port complex, and again struck Iranshahr airport; US forces also boarded a tanker. It was the sixth consecutive night of strikes, enacting part of President Trump’s threat to “knock out all their bridges”, though the threatened strikes on power plants have not been carried out.
Hitting the bridges and the port marks a deliberate move against the arteries that keep a country supplied, an escalation from military targets towards the infrastructure of civilian life, and it is Trump’s earlier threat turned into policy rather than rhetoric. Severing Bandar Abbas, Iran’s most important Gulf port, from road and rail is meant to choke the flow of men and materiel to the coast, but it also deepens the humanitarian toll and hardens Tehran’s refusal to talk. That the power plants have been threatened but not yet struck is the thin line still separating a punishing campaign from an assault on the systems that keep the lights and water on. Iran’s casualty figures are state-sourced and unverifiable, and should be read as claims. Britain’s forces sit inside the theatre, at the Bahrain naval base and the Qatar air hub. Watch whether the strikes cross onto power and water infrastructure, whether the tanker seizures multiply, and whether any verified toll emerges.