Trump threatens to expand strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure
Source: The Guardian
Donald Trump has threatened to expand US strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not agree to a deal amid a continuing dispute over the strait of Hormuz.
Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges, the US president said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday. Were going to knock out all their power plants. Were going to knock out all their bridges unless they get to the table and negotiate.
Trump made similar comments in March, when he threatened to obliterate Irans power stations and fresh water plants if Tehran did not agree to peace terms shortly. Destroying civilian infrastructure such as power and water facilities would be illegal under international humanitarian law and would probably constitute a war crime.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/trump-iran-power-plants-strike-threat-strait-of-hormuz
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,774 posts)Blowback on the US might not come from all the other countries the US has meddled with.
Blowback on the US people is going to come from The KING of ALL WAR CRiMINALS.
ananda
(35,981 posts)???
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,774 posts)Rubio is a war criminal now too.l
Cattledog
(6,677 posts)popsdenver
(2,942 posts)tells you which side they are all on............
I was in hopes they would all figure out what the Republicans are doing, and pull a military coup and throw them out of office across the entire U.S..........
Guess Not.............
Hope22
(4,992 posts)He wont be happy until the war comes home. The thrill of seeing all of us squirm.
popsdenver
(2,942 posts)Just like it helped Cheney/Rummy/WB when they allowed 9/11 to happen..........
Deuxcents
(28,510 posts)But cant finish it. His negotiation team, if you can call it that, is way out of their league and useless
Bengus81
(10,749 posts)Get those FUCKING gas prices up another 1.00 per gallon before the election Trump and then yell rigged.
We had to get gas yesterday, it's up 40 cents from a couple of weeks ago.
mwmisses4289
(5,393 posts)sakabatou
(46,631 posts)But now its crawling towards $7.
azureblue
(2,792 posts)Iran is ignoring his empty threats, since they know they hold the cards, so Trump is threatening to attack its people to get his way. To end a war he started for no reason at all but to make himself look better than Obama..
Sick
multigraincracker
(38,484 posts)first dig two graves.
Bayard
(30,930 posts)He probably relishes the term, "war criminal."
ChicagoTeamster
(1,601 posts)I thought the Trump administration was protecting Christians abroad. He bombed Nigeria under that pretense.
GiqueCee
(5,281 posts)... says, and what he does are all too often diametric opposites. He is an unspeakably evil creature devoid of any redeeming qualities whatsoever, not one. I would say the same is true of anyone who still supports him, plus, if they support a traitor, they ARE traitors, and will be dealt with accordingly when the time comes. And the time IS coming.
ChicagoTeamster
(1,601 posts)GiqueCee
(5,281 posts)Yesterday woulda been nice, but tomorrow'll do. I ain't holding my breath, though.
Torchlight
(7,453 posts)I think even trump is learning he gets spanked hard every time he puts his nose into the middle east and at this point, his 'glorious little wars' (of words) are simply to distract Joe Sixpack from his strings of embarrassing failures, losses and flaws this summer.
LudwigPastorius
(15,359 posts)Trump can literally shoot someone on 5th Avenue as long as its an official act.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,774 posts)Is his East wing bunker going to be finished before January 2027?
Progressive dog
(7,665 posts)How many civilians will that stupid POS kill by destroying their infrastructure? How many of the Iranian people will lose so much that they will spend their lives trying to get even?
That psychopathic narcissist is destroying everything that America used to stand for and those gutless Republican terrorist clowns are cheering him on.
twodogsbarking
(20,135 posts)mwb970
(12,180 posts)Crowman2009
(3,664 posts)Dubai is going to be a ghost town soon enough.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,774 posts)of unaliving him?
bluestarone
(22,685 posts)Is this truly what they want just before November? (it was coming down with TSF price fixing it) I say, GO AHEAD MAKE OUR DAY!!
popsdenver
(2,942 posts)It is the entire Republican Senate, the entire Republican House, and the Republican Supreme Court justices that are enabling him to psychotically act out........
Let's put the blame where it truly rests..........he couldn't stay in power for one day, if it weren't for them backing his every move, and quite possibly allowing the 2025 group to direct him...
electric_blue68
(28,207 posts)Montauk6
(9,350 posts)TRUMP THREATENS, 1-2
TRUMP TACO'S, 3-4
TRUMP THREATENS, 1-2
TRUMP TACO'S, 3-4
TRUMP THREATENS, 1-2
TRUMP TACO'S, 3-4
Klarkashton
(5,588 posts)He doesn't know what the hell to do.
Botany
(78,473 posts)water supply facilities, along with the Key Bridge it will all be Trumps fault, right? The drone might
be Chinese made and the targeting information might come from Russian Satellites.
Trump is a baby with a machine gun and a chain saw.
paleotn
(23,286 posts)Escalation will only cause Iran to dig their heels in deeper. He can either, A, give in to their demands and look weak, or B, continue the conflict, damaging the US and global economy just in time for the mid-terms. There is no choice C.
There are a bunch of good reasons why no US admin since Reagan has stupidly chosen to go there.