🔶 Why did the United States target the Aqqala railway bridge?

🔺 A report by Sara Jazidi

Among the points that the U.S. Army targeted in the early hours of Thursday, 18 Tir 1405, one case drew the attention of the media and analysts more than others; “the Aqqatakekhan railway bridge in the west of Aqqala County, in Golestan Province.”

Unlike other occasions when the attacks were generally directed at military bases or air-defense facilities, this time the target was a civilian structure and hundreds of kilometers away from the usual operational areas in the south of the country.

Of course, it should be noted that during the war between the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran, civilian locations and institutions—including facilities such as the Pasteur Institute—had also been targeted. But what distinguishes Aqqala is not simply the civilian nature of the target; it is the combination of this feature with the considerable geographical distance from the commonly used operational areas and the nature of the target as an economic infrastructure.

This distance from the operational area and the civilian nature of the target raises a serious question: “Why should the United States spend its weapons on striking a railway bridge in one of the north-eastern parts of Iran?”

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