More fuel to the fire. US President Donald Trump has launched a new threat to Iran, following Washington’s response to the Apache attack in the Strait of Hormuz. The president has accused the Iranian authorities of delaying the negotiation of an agreement that would represent a way out of the US-Israeli campaign of attacks last April. And he has assured that now they will pay the price.
“Iran only talks and does not act. The bully of the Middle East is DEAD! They have taken too long to negotiate an agreement that would have benefited them enormously, now they will have to pay the price!” Trump has published in a message on his own network, Truth Social.
Later, in the framework of a telephone interview with his favorite media, Fox NewsTrump has slipped in an old threat that he already formulated in moments of greatest tension with Tehran, that of resorting to military attacks against energy or civilian infrastructure, such as power plants or bridges. When the president was still issuing ultimatums that he himself later postponed, he went so far as to assure that “a civilization would die tonight,” in reference to what would happen if Washington’s conditions were not accepted.
Iran already responded to the threat of blowing up power plants and bridges with human chains
That threat of resorting to the use of force on infrastructure for civil and energy use—an issue considered a war crime in the field of international law—led to large demonstrations and events in which young people and Iranian art figures performed. It should be noted that, in this case, the US attacked the Karaj bridge, but the bombing occurred on a section under construction and not operational infrastructure.
Trump has also been asked in the interview about the Iranian attacks launched against US military bases in Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain; issue to which he limited himself to reiterating that Tehran had the opportunity to sign an agreement and survive, to insist again that it could continue with more attacks, given the slow pace of negotiations. It should be noted that Iran denounced that water tanks were found in the series of targets attacked by the US in the last 24 hours.
One of the biggest fears of an even greater escalation in the region is that the bombings by both parties will end up targeting desalination plants, vital for the consumption of drinking water in desert countries.
