US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a photograph of a toppled tower in the Iranian port of Chabahar. Not much explanation, no context, without even naming the location - just the image of a structure coming down. The location was confirmed by agency reports, and Iranian state media confirmed it was the third wave of strikes on the same port.

Tehran says the destroyed building was used to monitor commercial maritime traffic. The American side disagrees - it is known that Iran's Revolutionary Guard operates in ports across the country. Who is right? That is a question whose answer, as usual, depends on who is holding the camera.

Why Chabahar and why right now

Chabahar is not just any port. It is Iran's only direct outlet to the Indian Ocean outside the Strait of Hormuz - meaning the only route that does not depend on the narrowest and most strained chokepoint in world trade. It is also a key node on the INSTC international corridor, which links India with Iran, Russia and Europe. For India it is a geopolitical trump card: access to Afghanistan and Central Asia without having to pass through Pakistan. And, naturally, a counterweight to China's development of the nearby port of Gwadar.

Once you know all that, the picture of the toppled tower carries a different weight. This is not a strike on a barracks. This is a strike on logistics - on the bridge between Asia and Europe. The war has moved from military targets to the infrastructure that makes trade work.

The sixth night running

Iran's response came in the morning - a fresh wave of attacks on American military facilities in the Persian Gulf, after US forces spent a sixth consecutive night striking military targets inside Iran. With that, last month's ceasefire is officially dead. US Central Command said fighter jets, drones and warships had hit dozens of Iranian military targets - coastal surveillance, air defence, military logistics and naval capabilities. The targets were on the island of Qeshm and near Bandar Abbas, home to Iran's largest commercial port and to navy facilities.

Iran hit back with missiles and drones against American bases in neighbouring states. Among the targets was an air base in Jordan, and the Iranian military said it had struck American targets in Bahrain and Kuwait. In Doha, the capital of Qatar, witnesses reported the sound of explosions. Qatar's Interior Ministry confirmed that one child was injured by shrapnel.

One child in Doha

One child in Doha. Not American, not Iranian - Qatari. A child with no connection to Hormuz, to Chabahar, or to who was watching whom from which port. Iranian media also report that five bridges, the Bandar Hamir railway station and Iranshahr airport were hit. Bridges and stations do not shoot back.

The Balkans knows this scene by heart: when the big players start exchanging messages through infrastructure, the message always lands on somebody who never asked for it. The question is not who will topple the next tower. The question is who is even still counting how many towers are left - and whether anyone will ultimately answer for the child in Doha.