The president of the United States, Donald Trump, warned this Tuesday that “an entire civilization will die tonight”, but affirmed that Iran still has time to capitulate before the deadline set for eight in the afternoon in Washington (two in the morning in Madrid).
The American president, putting pressure on the ayatollah regime in a final sprint, has once again used crude words and his own social networks to launch this forceful threat on Tuesday, approximately 12 hours before the deadline he had established for Tehran to accept an agreement that included the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Otherwise, it faces harsh attacks that can take it back to the “Stone Age”, without electricity, without drinking water and without desalination plants to treat it.
Yesterday afternoon, the Republican already threatened to blow up all of Iran’s bridges and power plants, an action of such magnitude that some military law experts said it could constitute a war crime. Trump declared that he is not at all concerned about committing such violations of international law, while continuing to threaten destruction.
In his messages on networks, the New Yorker has played the usual game, threatening but saying that he is not the one who wants to go further. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have a complete and total regime change, where different, more intelligent and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionaryly wonderful can happen. Who knows?” he added in his messages.
“We will discover it tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world,” said the White House tenant, who stressed that “47 years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end,” referring to the period since the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. “May God bless the great people of Iran,” he concludes.
Trump has reiterated this ultimatum to Tehran on several occasions, demanding that Iran open the Strait of Hormuz, going so far as to assure on Monday that the entire country “can be devastated in one night,” including attacks on “every bridge” and “every nuclear power plant.”
The US president has recently increased his threats against Iran if it does not accept his demands, described by Tehran as “irrational” and “excessive”, amid international calls for dialogue to end the war – which has also had a great economic impact worldwide – and warnings from the Revolutionary Guard about a harsh response if “red lines” are crossed.
The president of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, declared this morning that 14 million Iranians, including himself, have already volunteered to sacrifice their lives in the war, starting by placing themselves in human chains in front of the complexes that are supposedly going to be attacked by the US.
This figure doubles the figures previously mentioned by state media for volunteers the Government had been soliciting via text messages and through the media during the conflict. Iran has a population of 90 million inhabitants.
The death toll from the war has risen to more than 1,900 people in Iran and more than 1,400 in Lebanon (where Hezbollah launched attacks on Israel to support its allies in Tehran and is still suffering from Tel Aviv’s response). The Iranian government has not updated the death toll in days. In the Arab Gulf states and in the occupied West Bank to Palestine, more than two dozen people have died, while in Israel 23 deaths have been reported and 13 US military personnel have died. Millions of people in Iran and Lebanon have been displaced, according to the UN.
Fear in civilians
Many Iranians live between anguish and concern in the face of the new ultimatum of the president of the United States to destroy power plants if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz and with the hope that some type of agreement will be closed before the end of the deadline, an increasingly distant possibility.
Tehran’s residents have become accustomed to living in some way with the daily bombings from the United States and Israel after 39 days of war, but the destruction of the energy plants presents a new scenario that no one wants: no electricity. “If it really attacks all the plants, life will be impossible,” Marjan, a 40-year-old housewife, explains to EFE Agency.
This woman claims that she supported the war at the beginning in the hope that there would be a change in the political system and a move from the Islamic Republic to a secular and democratic system.
But after five weeks of war he has changed his mind, the Government has not fallen and Trump’s threat has permeated the fear of being left without electricity, communications or even water, since many buildings use electric pumps.
“I am worried and distressed about what could happen. I don’t know what we are going to do if that happens. It would be terrible to live in the dark, without water and without being able to communicate,” she said. He also fears the long-term consequences and that this attack on infrastructure will delay the country and impoverish Iranians.
It will be at two thirty in the morning, local time, when it will begin to be known to what extent Trump is capable of acting.
