Iran announces attacks on crucial transportation infrastructure, including major roads and rail lines.

Airstrikes by Israel have left a trail of destruction in southern Lebanon, with a plume of smoke and a fragment of concrete rising from the eastern outskirts of Tyre on March 24, 2026, as the country bears the brunt of the Middle East war that began when Iran-backed Hezbollah started firing rockets into Israel on March 2.

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Lebanon's descent into the conflict was sparked by Hezbollah's retaliation for the killing of Iran's supreme leader, prompting Israel to launch strikes across the country, resulting in the deaths of at least 1,039 people and the displacement of over a million others, with ground troops also being deployed in southern Lebanon.

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Iranian officials have reported significant damage to the country's infrastructure, including at least two bridges, railway infrastructure, and a key highway, as a result of US-Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday.

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A bridge near the holy city of Qom and another bridge carrying a railway line in the central city of Kashan were among the targets, according to regional officials quoted by state media, with two people killed and three injured in Kashan, as confirmed by senior regional security official Akbar Salehi.

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A key highway in northern Iran, connecting Tabriz to Tehran via Zanjan, was closed after being hit around 90 kilometres outside of Tabriz, with an official telling IRNA that the strike damaged an overpass bridge, as reported by a Telegram channel of Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

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The Mizan news agency also reported a strike on railway tracks in Karaj, outside Tehran, with images showing rescuers from the Red Crescent carrying an injured man on a stretcher, as all trains were cancelled to and from Iran's second city of Mashhad on Tuesday following an Israeli warning against using the railways.

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A power outage occurred in parts of the cities of Karaj and Fardis outside Tehran after power transmission lines and a power substation were knocked out of service by airstrikes, according to the ISNA news agency.

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The Israeli military announced that it had completed a broad wave of strikes targeting "infrastructure sites", without providing further details on the specific sites that were hit.

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US President Donald Trump had previously threatened to target Iranian infrastructure unless Tehran agreed to a deal to end the war by Tuesday, stating that he was "considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil".