Terror Alert: Israel Now Cautions Iranians Over Train Travel

Dubai- The Israeli military warned Iranians in Farsi on Tuesday to avoid taking trains until at least 9 pm local time, likely signalling a new target for its airstrikes.

The warning came in a post on X.

"Your presence puts your life at risk," the warning read.

US President Donald Trump earlier demanded that Iran open the Strait of Hormuz or see power plants and bridges wiped out. The threat to hit civilian infrastructure has sparked widespread warnings about possible war crimes.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon on Tuesday urged Trump not to follow through, saying the "focus needs to be on not seeing this conflict expand any further."

"Any of those actions, including bombing bridges and reservoirs and civilian infrastructure, would be unacceptable," Luxon told Radio New Zealand.

Reports from Iran say people are forming human chains around power plants ahead of the threatened strikes.

"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," said Alireza Rahimi, secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth, in a video call in a newscast.

Iran has formed human chains in the past around its nuclear sites at times of heightened tensions with the West.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the US that attacks on civilian infrastructure are banned under international law, according to his spokesperson.

Trump, speaking with reporters, said he's "not at all" concerned about committing war crimes with such attacks.

The death toll continues to rise

More than 2000 people, including a large number of women and children, have been killed in relentless US-Israeli strikes in Iran since the war began.

Iran's minister of education said 310 students and teachers have been killed and over 750 schools have sustained damage so far in the US-Israeli air raids since late February. The dead included 170 children at an elementary school in Minab on the first day of war.

Alireza Kazemi provided the grim figures during a televised interview on Monday night, adding that more than 210 students and teachers were also wounded during this period.

The United States and Israel launched their latest war on Iran on February 28, assassinating Iran's leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and senior military officials and targeting nuclear facilities, schools and hospitals.

More than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Israeli air raids across Lebanon. More than 1 million people have been displaced. Eleven Israeli soldiers have died there in combat with Hezbollah fighters.

In Gulf Arab states and the occupied West Bank, more than two dozen people have died, while 23 have been reported dead in Israel, and 13 US service members have been killed.