US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran’s longest bridge had been destroyed, hours after he threatened to send the country “back to the Stone Age”.
Ghodratollah Seif, deputy governor of Alborz province, where the B1 grade is located, said the strike has left eight people dead and 95 others injured, according to state TV and the Fars news agency.
Due to reporting restrictions, Agence France-Presse cannot access the strike sites or independently verify the charges in Iran.
Trump posted pictures on social media of smoke rising from the B1 bridge in Karaj, about 35 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of Tehran – and warned that there would be more damage unless Iran came to the table to end the five-week war.
“The biggest bridge in Iran is coming down, it will never be used again – More to come! IT’S TIME FOR IRAN TO ACT BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE, AND NOTHING CAN BE A GREAT COUNTRY!” Trump said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on X: “Aggressing civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not force Iranians to surrender.
