“Three explosions were heard around the airport and at least one American enemy projectile hit Iranshahr airport,” in the southeast, state television IRIB said on Telegram.
“A few minutes ago, the Bandar Abbas Railway Junction Station was targeted by the American enemy. According to this report, two Iranians were injured in the attack,” Mehr said on Telegram.
An official report spoke of airstrikes on two bridges in Hormozgan Province and cited the official news agency IRNA as saying that two people had died and four were injured.
Iranian state TV also reported two explosions in the city of Bushehr – home to Iran’s only civilian nuclear plant – in a “continuation of the American enemy aggression”, as well as a series of unattributed blasts in coastal Bandar Abbas.
Tehran had earlier warned it would target infrastructure across the region if US President Donald Trump followed through on a threat to attack power plants and bridges in Iran – though the White House said he remained “open to diplomacy”.
Iran has countered the US strikes with missiles and drones targeted at US military bases in neighbouring states, including a recently expanded air base in Jordan that Iran said was used in a US attack on an Iranian children’s cancer hospital on Wednesday night.
The re-escalation has once again largely halted traffic through Hormuz, the world’s most important shipping route for oil and gas, pushing up global energy prices.
Tehran resumed its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and Washington again blockaded Iranian ports from Wednesday.
Iran has signalled it could prod its Houthi allies in Yemen to close another key strait: the Bab al-Mandeb at the mouth of the Red Sea, sources told Reuters, if Washington attacks Iran’s infrastructure. Iran last week hit ships moving through a corridor in the strait.
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, told a briefing on Thursday that Trump would not “sit by and allow these active acts of terrorism to take place in the strait without ensuring Iran pays consequences for that.”
But she added the president was “always open to diplomacy at the very same time.” (Agencies)
