Iran Accuses US of Railway Bridge Strikes as Tensions Escalate

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Iran accused the US of striking railway bridges near Mashhad and a nuclear power plant on Thursday as a fragile truce unravelled.
The strikes coincided with the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in a US airstrike.
Both nations traded attacks, with the US targeting Iranian military sites and Iran striking targets in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain.

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Iran accused the US of striking railway bridges near Mashhad and a nuclear power plant on Thursday as a fragile truce unravelled. The strikes coincided with the burial of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, killed in a US airstrike. Both nations traded attacks, with the US targeting Iranian military sites and Iran striking targets in Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain.

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