US President Donald Trump has vowed to continue striking Iranian infrastructure following strikes on the country’s oldest medical research institute and a key bridge linking Tehran to Karaj.
Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the US “hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants.”
His comments came after he threatened to send Iran “back to the Stone Ages”, a line picked up by other administration officials, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi hit back, saying “striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender.”
Despite thousands of US airstrikes on the country, Iran has continued to launch missiles and drones at Gulf infrastructure, US bases and against Israel, with Iran hitting the Mina al-Ahmadi refinery in Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia saying it had intercepted drones in the early hours of Friday.
Early on Friday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claimed that it had shot down a US F-35 fighter jet in central Iran.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency said the pilot’s fate remains unknown, citing an IRGC statement.
This is the second time during the war that Iran has claimed to have shot down a US F-35 jet.
