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Trump Threats on Iran Civilian Sites Raise Escalation Fears
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7:13Now PlayingTerry Haines, Founder at Pangaea Policy, reacts to President Trump's primetime address on the war in Iran.
President Donald Trump’s repeated threat to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure is the latest sign of the US leader’s increasing detachment from international norms and the bounds of modern warfare, a trend that’s alienating traditional allies.
Trump has pushed into legally contested territory both abroad and at home in his second term, advancing an expansive view of presidential authority. That’s included seizing Venezuela’s president and taking control of the country’s oil, bombing half a dozen nations including Nigeria, and starting the Iran war without Congressional approval, sparking a global energy crisis.
Europeans have balked at joining the US campaign — which shows no sign of ending — refusing the use of some military bases and ignoring Trump’s calls to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for energy supplies. But his latest threats to explicitly target essential infrastructure have alarmed countries already shaken by his assault on the world order and disdain for international law.
The US will “blow up and completely obliterate all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!)” if Iran does not reopen Hormuz, Trump said in a March 30 social media post. In a Wednesday address to Americans, he said the US would bomb Iran “back to the stone ages, where they belong,” and repeated his threat against its power plants.
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