US-Israel-Iran War LIVE: Trump's Deadline Continues, US Threatens 'Complete Demolition ' of Iran

The King Fahd Causeway, a key bridge linking Saudi Arabia to the island kingdom of Bahrain, closed early Tuesday over threats from Iranian attacks.

The King Fahd Causeway Authority made the announcement in a post on X.

It said vehicle movements had been “suspended as a precautionary measure” over Iranian attacks targeting Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.

The 25-kilometer (15.5-mile) bridge is the only connection by road for Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, to the Arabian Peninsula.

While there’s been no formal threat against the King Fahd Causeway, some hard-liners within Iran have increasingly identified it as a possible target.

That risk likely would grow if Trump carries out his threatened strikes against bridges in Iran.

AP

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed alarm over a social media threat by U.S. President Donald Trump warning of attacks on Iranian power plants and bridges if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the rhetoric was concerning and urged all sides to respect international law.

“Any attack on civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law and a very clear one,” Dujarric said, adding that the UN chief has called for dialogue and warned the conflict risks expanding into a wider regional war.

Saudi Arabia said early Tuesday that seven ballistic missiles launched from Iran were directed at the kingdom’s oil-rich Eastern Province, with missile debris falling near energy installations.

In a brief statement, Saudi military spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki said an assessment of the situation is underway but did not provide details on the scale of damage.

Authorities also did not specify which energy facilities may have been affected by the incident.

Israel claimed the recent wave of airstrikes targeting Iran’s capital, Tehran, but offered no immediate details on what had been targeted.

Already, Israel had faced one missile barrage from Iran on Tuesday.

An Iranian official early Tuesday issued a video message calling on youths of the Islamic Republic to form “human chains” around power plants in the country ahead of threatened strikes by U.S. President Donald

Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, issued the video call in a newscast.

“I invite all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors,” he said.

Gather “Tuesday at 2 p.m. around the power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth.”

Iran has formed human-chain demonstrations, also known as human shields, in the past around its nuclear sites at times of heightened tensions with the West.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s had similar human-shield demonstrations during the 1991 Gulf War. He also dispersed foreign nationals held by his security services to possible targets of the U.S.-led campaign during the war.