US Expands Iran Air Campaign With Strikes On Key Port Infrastructure

The United States expanded its military campaign against Iran on Friday by striking bridges, transportation infrastructure, and a surveillance tower at one of the country’s most important ports as President Trump intensified pressure on Tehran to end the conflict.

U.S. forces targeted multiple road and rail bridges around the strategic port of Bandar Abbas while also destroying a surveillance tower in the nearby port city of Chabahar. U.S. Central Command said the tower was part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps surveillance network used to monitor commercial shipping moving through the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes marked the sixth consecutive night of American air operations against Iran and followed President Trump’s warning that critical infrastructure would become targets unless the Iranian regime agreed to negotiate. Administration officials said the campaign is designed to reduce Iran’s ability to threaten maritime traffic and military operations in the region.

President Trump declared the United States is “winning big in Iran” and said the military campaign will continue until Iran can no longer disrupt international shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The administration has also maintained a naval blockade aimed at restricting Iranian oil exports.

Iranian officials reported at least eight people were killed in Hormozgan province during the latest wave of strikes, bringing the reported death toll from recent U.S. attacks to at least 39, with more than 400 people injured. Those figures have not been independently verified.

The escalating conflict has sharply reduced commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and contributed to another increase in global oil prices as traders reacted to fears of prolonged instability in one of the world’s most important energy corridors.