Trump warns he ‘hasn’t even began destroying what’s left in Iran’ after destroying mega bridge in lethal strike
Donald Trump warned late on Thursday that the military ‘hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran.’
Writing on the social media platform Truth Social, the US president threatened to strike and destroy the country’s bridges and electric power plants in his latest threat to hit the country’s infrastructure.
‘Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST!’, he wrote.
Trump, who has previously offered shifting timelines and objectives for the war, said in a televised speech on Wednesday that the war could escalate if Iran did not give in to Washington’s terms, with strikes on its energy and oil infrastructure possible.
Dozens of international law experts in the U.S. signed an open letter released earlier on Thursday saying that U.S. strikes on Iran may amount to war crimes.
The 1949 Geneva Conventions on humanitarian conduct in war prohibit attacks on sites considered essential for civilians.
The Geneva Conventions and additional protocols state that parties to military conflict must distinguish between ‘civilian objects and military objectives’ and that attacks on civilian objects are prohibited.
‘We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We are going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong,’ Trump said in his Wednesday address.
Donald Trump warned late about striking and destroying bridges and electric power plants in Iran in his latest threat to hit the country’s infrastructure
While he said Washington was nearing the completion of its goals in Iran, Trump did not lay out a timeline to end the war.
The president’s warning came after eight people were reportedly killed in Iran following a strike on the country’s tallest bridge.
The B1 bridge, which links Iran’s capital with the western city of Karaj, was targeted in two waves of strikes on Thursday afterTrump threatened to bomb Tehran ‘back to the Stone Age’.
The second attack on the 136-metre structure took place while rescue forces were at the scene helping at least 95 people, Iranian state media claimed.
Footage shows smoke lingering in the air before an enormous blast sends an even thicker plume into the sky.
The strike caused major damage to the bridge, the tallest in the Middle East, and a gaping hole can be seen in the middle of the structure.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said the attack ‘only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray’.
He added: ‘Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America’s standing.’
He later said there’s ‘one striking difference’ between the present and the Stone Age.
The war began on February 28 when the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. Tehran responded by launching its own attacks on Israel and Gulf states with U.S. bases. Joint U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran and Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed thousands and displaced millions.
The war has also raised oil prices and shaken global markets. Trump’s mixed messages thus far have done little to ease the concerns over his country’s biggest military attacks since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
