Trump threatens Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight" as war escalates

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday morning that Iran's " whole civilization will die tonight," the deadline he set for Iran to make a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, marking a possible sharp escalation in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will," Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.

Several explosions were heard in Iran's Kharg Island on Tuesday, following multiple attacks by the United States and Israel, according to Iran's Mehr News Agency.

At least two people were killed and three others injured as a railway bridge in Iran's central province of Isfahan was attacked Tuesday by the United States and Israel, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

The bridge is located in Yahyaabad Village in Kashan County, the IRNA quoted Akbar Salehi, Isfahan's deputy governor for political and security affairs, as saying.

According to the IRNA, an area near Kashan's train station was also targeted with three projectiles at around 13:00 local time (0930 GMT), damaging a number of nearby residential units as well as cars.

The United States and Israel on Tuesday launched an attack on a bridge near the Iranian city of Qom, south of Tehran, according to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that it had carried out large-scale attacks on Iran, targeting dozens of infrastructure facilities in multiple regions within the country.

Citing U.S. officials, U.S. media reported on Tuesday that the U.S. forces had attacked military targets on the Kharg Island, Iran's main oil export terminal.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran warned its neighboring countries in a statement on Tuesday that "restraint has ended," saying that it will strike the infrastructures of the United States and its allies and threatening to cut off the oil and gas supply to them in the region for years to come.

Trump threatens Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight" as war escalates

Two buildings at Tehran's Sharif University of Technology were reduced to rubble after an U.S.-Israeli attack on Monday.

Teaching equipment, experimental instruments, and study materials were seen buried in the ruins of the Information and Communication Technology Center (AICTC) and its neighboring building of Department of Philosophy of Science.

Around the demolished site, posters have been hung on strings following the attack, reading "Trump's help has come" -- a scornful reference to comments made by the U.S. president on January 13, when he told Iranians: "Help is on the way."

"The enemy wants either for Iran to surrender and submit to bullying, or for Iran to be destroyed. When the enemy seeks to destroy a nation, one of its primary targets is that nation's industrial capacity, with the aim of preventing its development. History has shown that whenever a nation seeks independence and development, those 'world aggressors' will stand in its way," said Abolfazl, a student.

In spite of the devastation, the university insists that it and the country will prevail against aggression.

"We will rebuild the country and we will make it even better. We are showing the buildings to the media to let the people know that our enemies do not want Iran to succeed, develop, or progress," Sharif University president Masoud Tajrishi said to the press.

Iranian officials said this attack was not an isolated incident but a continuation of the April 3 attack on Shahid Beheshti University.

The Iranian side stressed that deliberate attacks on research institutions and universities clearly violate international humanitarian law, constitute war crimes, and pose a serious threat to international peace and security.

Debris strewn across razed data center of Sharif University of Technology after U.S.-Israeli attack