US Strikes Hit Iranian Airport, Railway and Bridges Overnight
American forces struck Iran again overnight, US Central Command said, in another night of a campaign now approaching a week, hitting air-defence, logistics and coastal-surveillance sites. Iranian state media reported strikes on Iranshahr airport, the Bandar Abbas railway junction and two bridges in Hormozgan province. Iran’s health ministry put the toll since the fighting resumed at more than 35 killed and over 300 wounded — a figure that cannot be independently verified. President Trump threatened to widen the war “next week”, saying the US would “knock out all their power plants… all their bridges” if Tehran refused a deal.
The move against an airport, a railway junction and bridges signals a shift from purely military targets towards the infrastructure that keeps a country running, the kind of escalation that deepens the humanitarian toll and hardens a besieged government’s refusal to negotiate. Trump’s explicit threat to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges makes that shift a stated policy rather than an accident of targeting, and it raises the stakes of a war that is already approaching its second week with no defined end. Iran’s casualty figures are self-reported and unverifiable, and should be read as claims, but even the contested numbers point to a rising human cost. Britain’s forces sit inside the theatre, at the Bahrain naval base and the Qatar air hub, and its households feel the war through the pump and the gas bill. Watch whether the strikes move decisively onto civilian infrastructure, whether the toll can be verified, and whether Trump’s threat of a wider campaign is carried out.