The United States ruling class has launched another series of overnight strikes in Iran, reportedly hitting civilian infrastructure, including several bridges across the Islamic Republic. Tehran had already threatened that further escalation would have consequences for the entire region when the US launched these attacks.
“If the enemy, in the course of its war of attrition, seeks to strike Iran’s infrastructure or carry out further assassinations of officials, the entire region will pay the price,” a senior intelligence official in Tehran told RT on Thursday, as the US launched its latest strikes.
Does that mean Iran will do anything major? It likely depends. So far, closing the Strait of Hormuz has been fairly effective at making the US surrender, but that does not mean that Iran won’t change its war tactics and strike other US targets.
U.S. President Donald Trump also recently warned that he would attack and seize Iran’s oil operations center, Kharg Island.
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US Central Command announced its sixth consecutive night of strikes against Iran on Thursday evening in a brief statement without disclosing the specific targets. Trump threatened earlier this week to expand the bombing campaign to Iranian power plants, energy infrastructure, and bridges, according to a report by RT.
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The Iranian authorities say that the US airstrikes targeted five bridges in the southern province of Hormozgan overnight, expanding on earlier reports that transportation infrastructure was hit.
Iranian authorities urged residents to avoid traveling through the affected areas so emergency and rescue crews could access the sites.
“Iran’s plan for escalating the war will be full of surprises. And unlike the political disarray in the White House, here in Tehran we have maximum consensus on implementing this plan,” the official said.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has launched drone and missile attacks against US military facilities in the region, including the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain, one of America’s main naval hubs in the Persian Gulf.