Iran live updates: US blockade of Iran's Strait of Hormuz ports to begin Monday

A synagogue in Tehran was "completely destroyed" in U.S.-Israeli strikes overnight, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Located in central Tehran, Rafi-Nia Synagogue served as a religious center for the city's Jewish community, the semi-official ISNA News Agency reported.

The attacks were condemned by Homayoun Sameh Najafabadi, the representative of the Jewish community in Iran's parliament, according to IRNA. He said that carrying out the strikes during the Passover holiday showed that Israel had an "anti-religious attitude."

"At the beginning of the attack on our country, Trump claimed that he was carrying out these strikes in support of the people. But later, most of those who were martyred, injured, or disabled by the United States and Israel were these same people," Najafabadi said.

Iran's Deputy Minister of Sports and Youth Alireza Rahimi invited people to form human chains around the country's power plants in a video message published on Monday, according to the government's Telegram channel.

Rahimi called on young people, artists, athletes, students and professors to join the initiative -- which he described as a "symbolic move" -- on Tuesday at 2 p.m. local time (6:30 a.m. ET), regardless of their political views, to protect infrastructure he referred to as "national assets that belong to the future of Iran and its young people."

The invitation came as President Donald Trump's Tuesday evening deadline for Iran to fully re-open the Strait of Hormuz approached. Trump has threatened to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure -- including power plants and bridges -- if Tehran does not comply.

Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure, meanwhile, have intensified across the country.

The Israel Defense Forces' Farsi language X account on Tuesday morning issued a warning to all Iranians to "refrain from using and traveling by train throughout Iran" until 9 p.m. local time.

"Your presence on trains and near railway lines endangers your life," the post said.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps called President Donald Trump's threats to destroy all of Iran's bridges and power plants if a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz isn't reached "baseless" and vowed to continue their operations.

"The rude rhetoric, arrogance and baseless threats of the delusional U.S. president, arising from the deadlock he faces and aimed at justifying the repeated defeats of the U.S. military, will have no effect on the continuation of offensive and crushing operations by the fighters of Islam against U.S. and Israeli enemies, and will not repair the humiliation of the United States in West Asia," IRGC spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari said in a statement published in Iranian state media.