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The U.S. has struck more civilian infrastructure in southern Iran in its sixth consecutive day of attacks on Friday, including key bridges and a tower at a crucial port.<\/p>\n

Iranian officials reported that U.S. forces struck several key railway and highway bridges overnight on Friday. The attacks \u201cappeared aimed at cutting off Bandar Abbas,\u201d a critical port city that hosts Iran\u2019s Naval headquarters, from Tehran and the rest of the central part of the country, the Associated Press<\/em> reported. The U.S. has also hit Bandar Abbas directly in strikes this week.<\/p>\n

Officials said that six bridges in the province were targeted. Video footage shows several bridges being reduced to rubble. The strikes killed seven people.<\/p>\n

Local officials have also reported U.S. strikes on power infrastructure, causing power outages and a call from Iran\u2019s energy ministry to save power in the southern part of the country. <\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/em> reports that 200 patients at a hospital in southwestern Iran were evacuated after the facility was rendered inoperable due to nearby strikes. <\/p>\n

The U.S. also collapsed a maritime traffic control tower at the key port of Chabahar, which helped coordinate traffic for fishing vessels and trade around the Gulf of Oman. U.S. Central Command claimed the tower was \u201cused for decades by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to track and target commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz,\u201d though Iranian officials said the tower was \u201ca completely civilian structure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared a picture on X seemingly showing the strike on the tower, while reposting an earlier post that said: \u201cIran does not control the [Strait of Hormuz].\u201d<\/p>\n

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CENTCOM has denied reports from earlier this week that the U.S. hit a wheat storage facility in Iran. CENTCOM also did not acknowledge strikes on civilian infrastructure in its statement on the latest round of strikes on Friday, only saying that the U.S. had \u201chit dozens of Iranian military targets.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes are yet another escalation in a war that the U.S. swiftly intensified after President Donald Trump unilaterally declared that the ceasefire was over last week.<\/p>\n

Iran has continued to retaliate against the U.S. strikes with attacks in Kuwait, whose government reported damage to a water plant on Friday, and other surrounding countries that host the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/em> reported this week that Iran has told the Houthis to close the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, at the opening of the Red Sea, if the U.S. attacks Iranian power infrastructure. This would even further roil the world economy, already heavily disrupted by Iran\u2019s restrictions on passage through the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s unclear to what extent that power infrastructure must be destroyed in order for this plan to go into effect. <\/p>\n

The Reuters<\/em> report comes after Trump again threatened this week to destroy all of Iran\u2019s power infrastructure and bridges next week if the two parties don\u2019t strike a deal. This would have disastrous effects for the roughly 90 million people who live in Iran, and could constitute a war crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext week it gets really bad for them,\u201d the president said in an interview with Fox News<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019re going to knock out all their power plants. We\u2019re going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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