00:00The US military launched new airstrikes against military targets
00:05and strategic Iranian assets, including several bridges in the south of the country.
00:09This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing internal sources, information that
00:14It was confirmed by the Iranian news agency Fars.
00:17According to Fars, several bridges in the southern province of Ormosgan were damaged during
00:23the US attacks.
00:24Some of them were used to supply the city of Bandar Abbas, located in the
00:30Strait of Hormuz and home to a major naval base of the Revolutionary Guard Corps
00:35Islamic.
00:36In addition, it was reported that the access roads to Bandar Abbas were also damaged.
00:42Military sources cited by The Wall Street Journal claim that the US Army
00:47seeks to block the Bandar Abbas naval base by attacking bridges in southern Iran
00:52Cut off his supply.
00:53This, coupled with attacks against other Iranian military installations, is expected to
00:59reduce Iran's ability to attack merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
01:03At the moment, the true extent of the damage suffered by the bridges is unknown.
01:08south of the country.
01:09According to the Iranian state broadcaster IRIB, the highways connecting Bandar Abbas with other provinces
01:14Iran's have been closed.
01:16In response to US attacks on Iranian targets, the Iranian military
01:22It attacked US military bases in the Persian Gulf.
01:26Iranian drones and missiles were shot down in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan.
01:31Previously, it had been reported that the United States had severely damaged a railway bridge.
01:37in Iran, which plays an important role in trade between Russia and China.
01:41Israeli analyst Jigal Levin noted that the damaged bridge was part of the route
01:47railway that runs from Tehran, through Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, to Russia.
01:52Six months ago, the Institute for the Study of War, ISW, documented Iranian activity
01:59aimed at increasing trade volume along this route.
02:03This was part of a broader campaign to establish an alternative route network
02:08trade agreements with several neighboring countries that were not dependent on international sanctions
02:12against Iran, the expert added.
02:14Reuters, for its part, reported that, following the US attacks, there were
02:20explosions in Butcher province, where a nuclear power plant is located
02:24by Russia.
02:25A local official later told state media that a munition
02:30The American aircraft had impacted the outer perimeter of the plant, which had already been
02:34reached on several occasions before the ceasefire of April 8.
02:38A senior Iranian official, Mohsen Rezaei, stated that Tehran is prepared to escalate
02:45drastically increase its military actions if the United States continues to attack the Islamic Republic.
02:51According to Rezaei, in the next two or three days, Iran could abandon its current strategy.
02:57of deterrence and countermeasures to move to a phase that he described as offensive and of
03:02Total destruction. The official maintained that, in that case, the military bases and forces would be destroyed.
03:08Americans outside the United States would become targets of direct attacks.
03:14The Iranian official also noted that Washington's strategy of combining pressure
03:19According to him, military negotiations had reached a stalemate and he would no longer be
03:25producing results. Rezaei also warned that Tehran intends to increase
03:30the intensity of their attacks if the US military operation against Iran continues.
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