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The U.S. military has reportedly targeted several key railway lines in Iran in strikes on Thursday, with the U.S. unleashing dozens of strikes after President Donald Trump unilaterally declared the ceasefire \u201cover\u201d the day before.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the U.S. struck a railway that connects the capital of Tehran with the city of Mashhad, as well as a railway bridge near the city of Agh Qala in the northeast, according to U.S. media sources, as well as Iranian authorities. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that the U.S. also struck two bridges in eastern Iran on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure attacks mark an escalation by the U.S. The U.S.\u2019s strikes on infrastructure during the first phase of the war were considered particularly dire due to their impacts on civilian life. Trump\u2019s repeated threats to target bridges and power plants in Iran have been considered to be potential war crimes by experts of international law.<\/p>\n

The attack on the railway connecting Tehran and Mashhad came just hours before former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was slated to be buried in Mashhad on Thursday, a procession that nevertheless drew massive crowds. Iranian officials said service between the cities had to be suspended due to the attack, and the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways called the strike \u201ca criminal attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The railway struck in the northeast, in Iran\u2019s Golestan province, meanwhile, is a strategically important line that connects the country to China and Russia.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a press release that the military struck 90 targets overnight in Iran, \u201cincluding air defense systems, coastal surveillance assets, missile and drone storage sites, naval capabilities, and military logistics infrastructure along Iran\u2019s coastline.\u201d<\/p>\n

That brings the total number of targets struck in the past two days to over 170, according to CENTCOM. The New York Times<\/em> reports that this is 14 times the number of targets struck by the U.S. during the last two days of U.S. strikes in June.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s strikes come a day after an aggrieved Trump said, at the NATO summit in Turkey, that \u201cI think it\u2019s over\u201d with regard to the Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran. <\/p>\n

The Strait of Hormuz and the associated costs of its relative closure have continued to be a major sticking point in the negotiations for a permanent end to the war. Traffic in the strait dropped this week after tankers on the Oman side of the passage were struck on Monday. <\/p>\n

In addition to the new round of strikes, the U.S. also reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil this week. Iran retaliated against the latest round with attacks on U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

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