US President Donald Trump on Sunday heightened tensions with Iran, renewing a threat to strike key infrastructure if Tehran does not lift its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, in an expletive laden post on his Truth Social platform.
Trump’s references to ‘Power Plant Day’ and ‘Bridge Day’ as imminent actions were widely interpreted as threats against civilian infrastructure, including electrical grids and transportation networks. Under the Geneva Conventions, deliberately targeting civilian objects — such as power plants, bridges, or water systems not being used for military purposes — constitutes a war crime.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have claimed responsibility for attacks on petrochemical plants in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Bahrain. The IRGC has warned that it will intensify its attacks on US economic interests in the region if Washington strikes additional civilian targets.
00:00 Trump threatens Iran in expletive-laden post
00:40 Scott Lucas, Professor of American Studies at University College Dublin
06:58 Iranian drones hit Kuwait Petroleum headquarters
07:23 Diba Mirzaei, a doctoral researcher at GIGA, the German Institute for Global and Area Studies
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Ironic to call i Truth social when everything is a lie
Its called war trump and you are the one who started it.
He could not solve the ukrainian war so he just left. He cannot solve this one either so he´s just gonna destroy everything.
Say goodbye to the gulfs water treatment plants
That's what happens when a clown is given to run a country
Trump is right on the Strait of Hormuz issue
"Why does Trump still hold the podium?"
"There is nothing but cowardice in global leadership."
Expose! Israel in the Epstein files…now.
Why are you leftists blaming Trump for he types some bad words while Iran is attacking oil tankers? Aren't oil tankers for civilians, like fuels and fertilizers?
Trump being rage baited 😭
Socrates was right, it is Demagoguery.
Iran and the world will be better off. Stop protecting despots.
Great guest speaker.. Scott…
América you Will take some time to recover …
mentioning international institutions is just a waster..who listen to them
Abstain boy
imagine me, as a school teacher, start using Trump vocabular
Bully attitude is what's left… until a bigger bully comes around. Let's see who resists longer with this ego fight
this is a lunatic
it was open
Donald hasn’t come out of his fantasy living of Donald Duck yet.
He obviously has no clue
Do anything to open the strait.
Yep… he’s officially lost the plot. Assuming he has the plot in the first place. 😂
Trump & Netanyahu Assoc are able to circumnavigate (override) the USA Congress.
This is NUTS and Trumps 200% STUPIDITY is adversely affecting the entire planet.
What better leader of a country ..or any kind aye😃
Donny is very frustrated
😂 All failed leaders and journalists try to increase their followers, i.e. try to push down a leader like Trump who succeeded in every part of his life. It's called envy.👍
Well people of Iran has no human rights as we know anyway… And government is heawily dictatorship … They don't have right of choice for voting to chose a leader or chose what to wear or chose some other things anyway😅
Trump just used the language his supporters could understand.😂
Trump is sicker than John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy. He has done more killings than all the serial killers dead and alive in US prisons. His victims come from Palestine, Lebanon, Venezuela, Syria and Iran.
Thank for calling it out openly. Media everywhere still is dealing too politely with all Trumps statements.
Trump must go.the majority of iranians hate there government.they dont deserve this
Clearly Trump is a Chinese plant tasked with discrediting America. And he has done a marvellous job!
Trump is INSANE.
So this is US president, have no value for me
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
He seems to have gotten more unhinged over the last year…
This would be so helpful in War crime court😂
At this time Trump is openly begging Iran to open strait of Hormuz.
“Laden” 😂😂😂 Profanity LADAEN! 🤣🤣🤣
Your job is to educate, your experts need to at least get the base facts right 🤦
Whether or not attacks on dual purpose infrastructure count as war crimes is complex. I get that's not as interesting, but the Geneva convention isn't subtle about that distinction
He’s hyped up on medicated and impaired.
"We lost the keys" lol😂😂
OPERATION AIPAC FURY is going as planned, sir! Or was that OPERATION EPSTEIN BURY? I can't remember with all these tactical names. I thought it was OPERATION BIBI HAS A BUNCH OF VIDEOS OF ME FROM THE ISLAND, which is probably far more accurate.
ORANG GILA, GAK WARAS, SINTING.
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