Trump publishes images of the destruction of the highest bridge in the Middle East and warns Iran: “Before it's too late”

US President Donald Trump published a video online on Thursday showing, according to his own statements, the largest bridge in Iran destroyed by an airstrike and wrote that it is time for Iran to conclude a deal “before it is too late”, inform Reuters and Sky News.

A road bridge – the B1 bridge – connecting Iran's capital, Tehran, with the western city of Karaj was hit by airstrikes on Thursday, the Fars news agency reported earlier, adding that preliminary assessments indicated that several people were injured and that other areas of Karaj were also hit. The Fars news agency did not say who was behind the attack.

“Iran's biggest bridge collapses, never to be used again — More to come! IT'S TIME FOR IRAN TO GET A DEAL BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE AND NOTHING IS LEFT OF A GREAT COUNTRY! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” the White House leader wrote in his signature style. in capital letters, in a message published on his social network, Truth Social.

In his account, Fars added that the B1 bridge, which is 136 meters high, is considered the tallest bridge in the Middle East and was inaugurated earlier this year.

The bridge was touted in state media as “one of the most complex engineering projects in West Asia”.

Iran's Press TV reported that the bridge was valued at $400 million.

Images posted on social media, similar to those published by Trump, showed the significant damage that renders the bridge unusable.

US and Israeli airstrikes reportedly struck the B1 Bridge in Karaj, northern Iran, one of the country's tallest bridges, with several injuries reported. pic.twitter.com/eWTH2DZRrZ

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Close-up images of the moment the B1 bridge in the city of Karaj exploded around 5:30 pm Tehran time.

According to Iranian sources, the bridge was attacked multiple times. pic.twitter.com/OElOeTncXj

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Trump has not offered a timetable for ending the war in Iran

In a televised address to the nation, President Trump said on Wednesday night that the US military had almost achieved its goals in Iran, but did not offer a clear timetable for ending the more than a month-long war and vowed to bomb the country until it returned to the “Stone Age”, Reuters previously reported, which summarized the Republican's remarks.

Faced with a war-wary populace, low approval ratings and pressure from allies to outline his war aims in more precise and consistent terms, Trump has insisted that the US has destroyed Iran's navy and air force and crippled its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.

But the US president refused to outline a concrete plan to end the war, now in its fifth week, beyond saying the US would finish the job “very quickly”.

“We have all the cards. They have none,” Trump said from the White House in his first prime-time address since the US and Israel launched war on Iran on February 28.

Trump quickly ticked off several major outstanding issues, such as the status of Iran's enriched uranium and access through the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for global oil supplies that Iran has effectively shut down.

The strait, he said, would open “naturally” once the war was over.

Trump's 19-minute speech did not offer much news or enough guarantees to Americans and US allies, increasingly affected by prices at the pump and increasingly irritated by this war, notes Agerpres.

Stocks fell, the dollar strengthened and oil prices rose shortly after Trump's comments, reflecting widespread sentiment that the conflict is likely to continue.

“Back to the Stone Age”

The president and his advisers have offered explanations and timelines for this war that have kept changing, and the same is true when it comes to clarifying what their demands are on Iran to end this war. While portraying Iran as militarily “neutered,” Trump also said late Wednesday that the U.S. would hit the nation hard for another two to three weeks.

If the country's new leaders do not negotiate satisfactorily, he said, the US will begin attacking the nation's electricity and oil generation infrastructure.

As Trump spoke, air raid sirens sounded in both Doha and Tel Aviv, illustrating how the Islamic Republic is still capable of wreaking havoc in the Middle East despite heavy losses, Reuters noted.

“We're going to hit them extremely hard in the next two to three weeks. We're going to put them back in the Stone Age, where they belong,” Trump said. “Meanwhile, discussions are ongoing,” the US president added. “However, if no agreement is reached during this period, we have our eyes on some key targets,” he continued.

A day earlier, Trump told reporters that Tehran did not need to strike a deal as a precondition for a de-escalation of the conflict.

Although the US president on Wednesday briefly acknowledged growing concerns among Americans that the war is making gasoline unaffordable, he insisted that prices would soon fall and that any price increases were mainly Iran's fault. Trump added that countries that get most of their oil supplies from the Gulf region should take the lead in opening the Strait of Hormuz.

The United Kingdom, France and other US allies have said they are willing to help keep the strait open, but only after hostilities cease.

“I can do that easily,” Trump said. “We will be helpful, but they should take the lead in protecting the oil they desperately depend on,” he argued.

Trump has expressed anger that NATO allies have not offered to help open the strait, even threatening to withdraw from the Atlantic alliance. Although he had told Reuters earlier on Wednesday that he would discuss the US relationship with NATO in his speech to express his “disgust” with the alliance, he did not mention the bloc in his 19-minute speech.

Trump tells fuel-strapped countries to 'buy US oil'

Trump also suggested that countries affected by current fuel shortages buy oil from the United States.

“Buy oil from the United States of America. We have plenty. We have so much,” insisted the American leader.

He also urged these countries to take responsibility for securing this crucial waterway.

“They have to value it. They have to get their hands on it and value it. They can do that easily,” Trump said.

According to AFP, the American president also promised not to abandon the Gulf states, targeted by Iran, which resorted to retaliation after the Israeli-American attacks.

“I want to thank our allies in the Middle East: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain. They have been extraordinary and we will not allow them to suffer even the slightest harm or failure,” the US president said in his speech.

Justification for the Iran War

The US president also insisted that Iran was trying to “rebuild its nuclear program in a completely different place” and that is why we had to “finish them”.

In his address to the nation, the US president also said that after last June's attack on Iranian military facilities, Tehran was rebuilding its missile program and could have hit US soil, which experts dispute.

“The regime sought to rebuild its nuclear program elsewhere, making it abundantly clear that it had no intention of abandoning the pursuit of nuclear weapons. It was also rapidly building its conventional ballistic missile arsenals and could soon have missiles that could reach the United States, Europe and virtually anywhere in the world,” Trump added.

“It would have been an intolerable threat for these terrorists to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump insisted.

According to the US president, Iran was very close to acquiring a nuclear bomb and that is why it had to start the bombing campaign.

Trump has threatened Iran with missile strikes if it starts moving uranium

The US president downplayed the importance of highly enriched uranium believed to be buried in Iran.

Iran's nuclear facilities were hit so hard in airstrikes last June that it would take months to get close to the uranium, Trump said.

The situation is being closely monitored with the help of satellites, he added.

If even the slightest movement by the Iranians was detected, they would be hit “very heavily” with missiles, he said.

The US president was referring directly to the highly enriched uranium believed to be buried beneath Iran's nuclear facilities. Instead, he spoke of “nuclear dust,” a term he previously used to refer to Iran's stockpile of uranium.

Americans want the war to end

In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted over three days late last week, from Friday to Sunday, 60 percent of voters said they disapproved of the war, while 35 percent approved of it.

About 66 percent of respondents said the U.S. should act to quickly end its involvement in the war, even if it meant falling short of the administration's goals.

Trump, meanwhile, has flirted with options for both escalating and de-escalating the conflict, and his next decisions are unclear, even to some close advisers.

His speech did not further clarify matters.

Administration officials have discussed executing a bold operation to physically seize Iran's remaining stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, as well as land operations to seize certain strategic territories — including parts of Iran's coast and Kharg Island, through which Iran exports the vast majority of its oil.

Thousands of US troops continue to sail to the Gulf region, indicating that President Trump wants to keep his military options open.

The Republican urged Americans to “see this conflict in perspective,” noting that previous wars in Iraq, Vietnam and Korea required much longer U.S. involvement.