We've reached the "publicly threatening to commit war crimes" phase of this conflict.

[bigtree]

Colin P. Clarke, Ph.D. @ColinPClarke 1h
Ah, I see we've reached the "publicly threatening to commit war crimes" phase of this conflict. Must be going swimmingly, I suppose.


Bahman Kalbasi @BahmanKalbasi
Nothing says “help is on the way” like telling the Iranian people you will cut off their electricity.

A nation of 90 million is now stuck between a regime that brutally suppresses them and US/Israel threatening to disrupt their very basic necessities of life.

Stephen Wertheim @stephenwertheim
This war is unconstitutional, and it’s ridiculous that this one individual can sit there and threaten to bomb Iran’s power plants, a move that will cause Iran to retaliate in kind (or more) across the region. What happened to the rule of law? Congress? Courts? Democracy?

[RockRaven]

1. Reached? We STARTED there. nt

[AZ8theist]

2. "What happened to the rule of law?"

Rule of law?

What rule of law?

What is this "rule of law" of which you speak?

The only thing you need to be talking about is the DOW is over 50,000 "dollars"........

[Justice matters.]

3. The Rule Of Law??

34 convictions = Zero punishments.

Dozens of top-secret MILITARY documents stolen = Not even a trial to begin with.

Conspiracy to steal an election followed by an attempt to violently overthrow the government = Not even a trial either.

Those are just the crimes that have clear pieces of evidence brought up by prosecutors. There may be a lot more not even prosecuted yet (like dozens of murders in high ocean waters, for just one instance).

The Rule Of Law is now a sad joke.

[BWdem4life]

4. The courts will hold.

[wnylib]

5. Please tell me those power plants are not nuclear.

[Igel]

7. Iran has 1 nuclear power plant.

It's built and still run by the Russians using that good-ol' Russian nuclear know-how. Word is there are 5-600 Russians still running the plant (but I doubt all 540 or however many reside there 24/7).

It's by far not the largest power plant in the rump empire that is Iran.

A missile--whether aimed specifically that the building or not--hit a building near the Bushehr plant in the last week to ten days. It was the "metrology" building, the Russians and Iranians claimed. Which means maybe it could have been a building devoted into metering and calibration of said meters. Or maybe it was for something entirely different.

No radiation release was reported to be due to that strike.

[wnylib]

8. Thanks. Glad to know that there's only one nuke plant

If Trump is crazy enough to bomb ALL power plants, though, he might get to that one eventually.

[David__77]

6. Criminal war and criminal president

[leftstreet]

9. But he JUST SAID "we don't need" the Strait

"Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory ... they should help us. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil." - Trump 15 March 2026

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

“The Islamic Republic of Iran did not start this war, but it will not hesitate in defending its people and its land,” the country’s first vice president, Mohammad Reza Aref, said in a statement reported by Mehr, a semiofficial news agency. He added that Iran “will determine when and how this war will end.”

Ebrahim Zolfaghari, an Iranian military spokesman, vowed that if energy sites were attacked, Iran would target more infrastructure in the region used by Israel, the United States and American allies, including “fuel, energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure.” He added that the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil supply route, would be “completely closed” until any damaged Iranian power plants were rebuilt, in a statement reported by state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, the state broadcaster.

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s Parliament, warned on Sunday that attacks on Iranian critical infrastructure would mean that “energy and oil facilities across the region will be considered legitimate targets and will be irreversibly destroyed.” The result, he said on social media, would be a spike in global oil prices that have already climbed by about 50 percent during the war.

Mr. Aref — who narrowly escaped being killed in an Israeli bombing this month, according to Iranian news media — said that Mr. Trump’s threats to destroy civilian infrastructure “showed the real target of these policies is directly the Iranian people themselves.”

“Attacking a nation’s vital infrastructure means a direct threat against its people and a clear violation of humanitarian principles and international law,” he said. “An attack on Iran’s infrastructure will create widespread blackouts in the region.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/22/world/iran-war-oil-trump?smid=url-share#iran-response-trump-threat-power-plants