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Bridge strikes and casualties
Iran urged the UN Human Rights Office to condemn what it called ongoing US military aggression and alleged international law violations, as the Gulf News described a reported US military strike that destroyed a key road bridge near Bandar Abbas and severed a major transportation link across the Shur River.
“According to ABNA, the international Ahl al-Bayt News Agency, a number of Iranian civilians were killed and several others wounded in American airstrikes on Thursday evening and Friday dawn, affecting residential areas, bridges, roads, a railway station, and a power line in southern Iran”
The same report said the bridge, which connects Bandar Abbas with inland cities, collapsed into the river after being struck, with at least two people reportedly killed and four others injured, and with localized power outages reported in the surrounding area.
Gulf News added that as of early Friday neither the US nor Iranian authorities had officially confirmed the strike, the reported casualties, or the extent of the damage, and that independent verification was not immediately possible.
ABNA, the Ahl al-Bayt News Agency, said American airstrikes on Thursday evening and Friday dawn killed Iranian civilians and wounded others, including “Two martyrs and four wounded” on the Bandar Abbas–Khamir axis bridges.
ABNA also said the Bandar Abbas–Khamir–Lar road was completely closed and the road leading to Kohorstan via Kashar was closed until further notice, while ambulance teams, police, and armed forces were on site for rescue and relief operations.
Iranian claims and counterattacks
Noor News said the United States’ aggression against Iran continued for a fifth consecutive night with attacks on locations in Hormozgan Province, and it quoted the senior spokesman of the Armed Forces warning that any damage to Iran’s infrastructure aimed at targeting all regional infrastructure would be met with a “very hard and crippling response.”
Noor News also stated that “In reply to these attacks, Iran struck targets in Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Bahrain, and Qatar,” and it said the Jordanian army confirmed an Iranian missile strike on soil within Jordan.
The same Noor News account claimed the IRGC Aerospace Force carried out a heavy and surprise attack on the U.S. air base at Al-Udeid, Qatar, and said that during the attack a long-range radar system and several American aerial-refueling aircraft were completely destroyed and several others were seriously damaged.
Tabnak, citing a CENTCOM statement, said American forces began a new wave of attacks against Iran at 2:00 PM Eastern Time today (9:30 PM Iran time) for the fifth consecutive night, aimed at further weakening Iran’s military capabilities.
Tabnak further reported that IRGC Public Relations in Announcement No. 21 said that at dawn today the IRGC Navy in Wave 13 of Nasr 2 targeted and destroyed the naval radar on the Salama Rocks and the U.S. air-defense radar stationed in the Oman region of Ghannam.
More strikes across provinces
East News Group said CENTCOM announced the start of a new round of attacks on Iran and claimed it would follow the fifth day of consecutive attacks, with the report describing explosions heard in Bandar Abbas and a Hormozgan governorate notice that sites in Bandar Abbas were struck at 21:35 by projectiles fired by American forces.
East News Group added that Tasnim reported Allah Akbar Hill in Bandar Abbas was attacked again and that the electricity in the area was currently out because the target of the strike was a telecommunications tower.
The same account said the Public Relations Office of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences announced that following the attack on the Tappeh al-Lahkabr neighborhood of Bandar Abbas, seven compatriots had been injured so far, and it said rescue and medical teams were placed on full readiness.
Mehr News Agency reported that local Iranian media reported bombing near Sirik in Hormozgan Province at 11:27 p.m. Tehran local time, and it said Mehr reported later there was no immediate reports of any casualties in the attack on Sirik.
Mehr also said media reported explosions in the suburbs of Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province, and that the US CENTCOM announced it launched a fresh round of military strikes against Iran at 3:00 p.m. ET.
