US Military Targets Iranian Civilian Infrastructure Following "Stone Ages" Threat
A critical bridge near Tehran was destroyed by US military forces on Thursday, hours after President Trump publicly threatened to bomb Iran "back to the stone ages." This direct assault on Iranian civilian infrastructure, confirmed by US defense officials to Axios, constitutes a significant expansion of the ongoing US-Israeli joint military operations against the Islamic Republic. Axios, among
others, presented this attack as a strategic move to compel Iran into a 'deal' or to prevent the movement of unspecified 'weapons.' This framing conveniently bypasses the fact that the United States, fighting alongside Israel, has engaged in persistent economic warfare against Iran for 45 years, severely impacting its civilian population. The claim that the B-1 bridge strike was solely for
military purposes ignores the clear stated intent to inflict punitive civilian suffering and reduce a nation to rubble, a tactic that directly echoes the 1989 invasion of Panama where US forces indiscriminately bombed civilian neighborhoods, displacing thousands. The current US administration’s justification for striking civilian targets in Iran as a response to Tehran's alleged nuclear ambitions
is a familiar deception. This stands in stark contrast to the international silence surrounding Israel's undeclared nuclear arsenal, developed with substantial Western support, while Iran, a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, faces relentless scrutiny and aggression. The persistent narrative that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons is a pretext; the betrayal of the Joint