Iran unswayed by Trump’s 48-hour deadline and threats to ‘obliterate’ energy infrastructure

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  1. callsonreddit on

    >Tehran has threatened to escalate strikes on energy infrastructure and target critical water desalination facilities, should President Donald Trump make good on a promise to “obliterate” the country’s power plants if it does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

    >“If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, then fuel, energy, information technology systems and desalination infrastructure used by America and the regime in the region will be struck,” Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya military command headquarters, warned on Sunday, according to the IRNA Iranian state news agency.

  2. Trump’s legacy is war, child molestation, theft, and the isolation of our country from it’s allies.

  3. This is the kind of thing that happens when you start a war based on hunches and vibes, without any kind of planning.

    If there was any kind of plan on Trump’s part, it was vague to the point of uselessness. I suspect it was something like, “Take out a few leaders and bomb some places, and the Iranian people will overthrow the government and install a western friendly regime.”

  4. speminfortunam on

    Obviously.

    It’s exactly what they want.

    Why can’t he understand this?

    And if he’s destroying the world economy on purpose, why isn’t anyone in the US govt or opposition or legislature stopping him?

  5. Objective_Star_191 on

    How can you not cheer for Iran in this case .   Shove those missiles up trumps ass ! 

  6. GuiltyAnalysis3316 on

    This essentialy means that entire middle east will be in the dark on top of losing water.
    So you will have thousands of possible deaths on top of millions who will have to relocate.
    Gulf states will basically die.

  7. Technical_Ideal_5439 on

    Trump doesnt seem to understand that the regime does not care about the people. Making is harder for the people has little impact on the regime they are simply not going to care about the threat other than people getting bombed are not going to like the US.

  8. For those following at home; this is what happens when you send a Real Estate Developer and a Private Equity guy to negotiate a peace deal.

  9. NoSwordfish6949 on

    Trumps threats are embarrassing. Luckily, nobody takes anything he says seriously.

  10. CommercialComputer15 on

    Sounds like that’s their goal, for the Middle East to destroy its own energy security

  11. Escalating rhetoric around critical infrastructure raises concerns about broader regional and economic fallout.

  12. RedWineWithFish on

    What’s the point of giving sovereign countries public ultimatums on social media ? No country will ever bow to such. You approach discretely through trusted third parties

  13. Happy_Feet333 on

    Pretty much to be expected.

    As long as Iran’s government is not threatened by revolt or invasion, they have a free hand to maximize pain to anyone attacking them.

    Iran took care of the revolt threat before the war started. And there’s no credible threat of invasion coming from the US. 5,000 marines that will get to the Persian gulf in about 4 weeks is not a threat at all.

    (5,000 US marines just left on for the Gulf… from San Diego. So their ship has to reach the Panama Canal, transit through it. Travel across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean, through the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea, and then around the Arabian Peninsula. And that’s going to take a while.)

    Not to mention that 5,000 Marines, while competent, are a joke if you are planning to invade Iran.

  14. BaronGreywatch on

    How unsurprising. Trump really has no idea what he is doing, does he. I’d think it was all brilliant satire if it wasn’t so excruciatingly our actual reality.

  15. PreacherCoach on

    …. really…. it’s like…. they have decided to fight back or something….

    Perhaps Trump thought Iran Epstien Island and got confused…

  16. KnownAppeal4137 on

    It seems fitting that the unholy Abrahamic trifecta always seems to be lifting it’s 3 heads whenever shit starts to crumble.  Theatre comes in many forms, sometimes we laugh sometimes we cry.  In this case, the emotions are cheap and the plot is predictable. 1 star.

  17. usuallysortadrunk on

    So like,I punch this guy in the face right. He gets mad and punches the guy beside him. Im like don’t hit that guy! And punch him again. He just keeps punching other people and I keep punching him to get him to stop. Like dude wtf?

  18. Iran is going to get to entire middle east to unite against a common enemy, them.

  19. anonymousasu on

    Does anyone feel like there is a future in this country? We have a major culture problem in that our citizens are functionally illiterate and seemingly don’t care about reading or learning.

  20. When you say ‘obliterate’ over and over again it tends to lose it’s effect. And may be a sign you have dementia.

  21. Major_Lawfulness6122 on

    Why would they be swayed? He will probably forget he wrote it in 48 hours.

  22. The guy finally met his match and doesn’t realize that he can’t make them roll over with bullying and threatening like it’s a tariff against an ally.

  23. what a deal! innocent deaths all around and global instability! what a dealmaker donnie pedo is!

    he has to do something now otherwise he’ll look like a huge pussy. again. marines must be arriving around that time and he’s “helping” with misdirection.

  24. MysteriousAge28 on

    Yes im sure iranian leadership is worried about suppling power to its constituents, the same regime known to murder and rape women for not wearing a cloth on their head. Idk my guess is cutting power to the people wouldn’t bother them that much.

  25. I guess my question is at what point do the GCC states that have been getting hit the last 3 weeks switch from ‘defensive’ to ‘offensive’ mode?

    Right now the threat vaguely says Iran will attack enemy infrastructure. Is the GCC just going to sit back and watch?

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