Iran's IRGC vows "beyond the region" response if US hits civilian targets

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) warned on Tuesday that if the U.S. army crosses the red line in attacking civilian targets, Iran's response "will go beyond the region."

In a statement published on its official news outlet Sepah News, the IRGC said: "We will not hesitate to retaliate vile aggressions against civilian facilities."

It came as tensions rose on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump made a social media post in which he threatened Iran's "whole civilization will die tonight," if they fail to meet the deadline he had set to reach a deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, signaling a possible sharp escalation of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

On the same day, the IRGC announced that as part of the 99th wave of its ongoing "Operation True Promise 4," it has launched attacks on more than 30 targets across central, southern, and inland areas of Israel, covering Rishon LeZion and Petah Tikva in Central Israel, Beersheba, Dimona, and Arad in Negev region, and around ten locations in Tel Aviv.

It added that further retaliations would intensify, with Israeli industrial facilities, infrastructure and military bases all identified as potential targets.

The IRGC also said on Tuesday it had carried out strikes on U.S. bases and other targets in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, as well as on military command centers in the occupied Palestinian territories as part of the 99th wave of its operation.

According to the statement, the operations, jointly conducted by the IRGC Navy and Aerospace Force, carried out attacks with ballistic and cruise missiles along with attack drones in response to earlier strikes on petrochemical plants and affiliated facilities in Iran's southern coastal city of Asaluyeh.

The IRGC further claimed it had launched a long-range missile attack against the U.S. Navy's Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, which is reportedly deployed in the Indian Ocean.

Separately, media reports said a large petrochemical complex in Saudi Arabia's Jubail, which was owned by a U.S. company, was hit by medium-range missiles and drones.

Another container vessel, reportedly linked to Israel and believed to be preparing to transport military equipment from the Khor Fakkan port in the United Arab Emirates, was also said to have been struck.

Iran's IRGC vows "beyond the region" response if US hits civilian targets

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