New Delhi, July 17 -- BANDAR ABBAS - Vehicles were still crossing the Khmer Bridge when the first American missiles struck. The bridge, connecting Bandar Abbas to Lar in Fars Province and carrying the daily commerce of Iran's south, was among five civilian crossings destroyed in Hormozgan Province on Thursday night. At least seven people were killed in the bridge attacks; nine more were wounded.

commuter bridges, a residential neighborhood in Bandar Abbas, a railway junction station, an island electrical substation, and two airports in southeastern Iran.

In Hormozgan Province, US forces destroyed the Gariveh Bridge linking Bandar Abbas to Bandar Khamir, two crossings on the Kahoorestan-Lar route, a span near Latidan village, and a parti...