Trump Continues Threatening War Crimes If Iran Doesn’t Capitulate ‘Immediately’

Destroying a country’s electrical grid, its water system and stealing its oil all violate international law, and Trump says he will do them all.

Senior White House Correspondent, HuffPost

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday continued to threaten Iran with war crimes if it does not comply with his demands, even as he also insisted a ceasefire deal with the country’s new, “more reasonable” rulers was soon at hand.

“If for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched,’” Trump posted on social media. “This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year ‘Reign of Terror.’”

Destroying a country’s electrical and drinking water infrastructure, unless it is done for a specific military objective, violates international law governing armed conflicts, experts said, as does Trump’s additional threat to “take” Iran’s oil.

“Trump is in Putin territory,” said Fiona Hill, who served on the National Security Council in Trump’s first term, comparing Trump’s threat to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. “It’s a mafia boss play.”

Trump originally threatened to attack Iran’s electrical generation system on March 21, giving Iran 48 hours to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to........

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