US strike on Iran suspension bridge hints at looming shift in war strategy
President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to widen the US military’s aperture to bomb civilian infrastructure if leaders in Tehran continue to refuse his demands for capitulation by April 6.
WASHINGTON — Iran’s government blamed the United States and Israel collectively for airstrikes on Thursday that blew up part of a leading medical research college in Tehran and destroyed a major suspension bridge that had been under construction near the city of Karaj.
The airstrikes on the Pasteur Institute of Iran and the B1 bridge located some 22 miles northwest of the capital came just hours after President Donald Trump again openly warned that he will order the US military to begin targeting civilian infrastructure in Iran if the country’s leaders do not negotiate with the United States on an end the war.
No side has publicly claimed credit for either of the strikes, although US President Donald Trump praised the attack on the bridge in a social media post on Thursday.
"The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow!” Trump wrote, before calling on Iran’s leaders to “MAKE A DEAL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE AND THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT STILL COULD BECOME A GREAT COUNTRY!”
