According to state media reports, authorities have recently intensified efforts to restore bridges, railways, and other infrastructure damaged during nearly 40 days of U.S.-Israeli attacks. A fragile truce has been in effect since Wednesday, with on-site teams working to normalize traffic and repair war damage as soon as possible.
In the northwestern region of Azerbaijan in Iran, the railway director-general announced that trains have resumed service from the city of Tabriz to the capital Tehran, as well as to Mashhad in the northeast of the country.
"These trains have resumed operation after a four- to five-day suspension," said Alireza Soleimani, according to the official Iranian news agency IRNA.
It was also reported that a train on the "Tehran-Tabriz-Van" route departed Tehran for Van in Turkey last night, utilizing restored sections of the railway. Near the city of Qom, south of Tehran, a railway bridge reopened on Saturday after reconstruction work that, according to the deputy governor of Qom Province, Hosrov Samaria, lasted "less than 40 hours."
On Friday, the Tasnim agency released a video showing a train crossing the Yahya Abad Bridge in the city of Kashan in the central Isfahan Province.
"After rapid reconstruction, the first train passed over the Yahya Abad Bridge today," the agency reported, claiming that this bridge had been targeted in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Tuesday.
In Tehran, residents noted that the relevant authorities quickly began clearing debris at affected sites. At locations where buildings suffered severe damage, structures were partially covered or fenced off, among other measures, including with Iranian flags.
Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani stated on Sunday that the reconstruction of damaged buildings would take between three months and two years. She added that since the start of the war, more than 125,000 structures have been damaged, most of which are residential, but also include schools, hospitals, and other civilian facilities.