Trump gives Iran 48 hours: lift the blockade of the Hormuz Strait, or the US will bomb power plants
On the 21st, Trump once again threatened Iran on social media, demanding that Iran lift the blockade of the Hormuz Strait within 48 hours, otherwise the US will bomb Iran's power plants.
It should be said that this extreme threat reveals that Trump has few cards left in his hand. For the past three weeks, the continuous air strikes by the US and Israel, even the "decapitation" operations targeting senior officials, have failed to force Tehran to retreat on the issue of the Hormuz Strait.
This indirectly indicates that military targets exposed on the surface in Iran may have already suffered heavy damage. When conventional military pressure gradually fails, Trump can only turn to more cruel methods, such as threatening to destroy power plants, which are civilian survival facilities, in an attempt to force Iran to submit by creating a large-scale humanitarian disaster.
This tactic of using civilian infrastructure as a threat and causing "excessive harm" to civilians to force the other side to comply is not a new move for the United States - NATO once did the same thing when it bombed the former Yugoslavia: bombing bridges, power stations, and TV stations.
In short, this is the "traditional skill" of the United States. Now, Trump has once again raised this threat, which not only shows his strategic dead end, but also confirms again the "tradition" of the United States of openly violating humanitarian principles for the sake of its goals.
Original: toutiao.com/article/1860351037957127/
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