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United States President Donald Trump threatens to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
So far, the U.S. has refrained from targeting infrastructure in Iran amid fears of such a step’s impact on the global economy.
The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s most critical maritime chokepoint, with roughly one-fifth of global oil consumption passing through. The waterway serves as the primary gateway for energy exports from major producers like Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Kuwait.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps previously warned that any ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz would be attacked, and the waterway has effectively been closed since the start of the American-Israeli war on the Islamic Republic, with many vessels hit by Iranian fire there and in nearby waters.
Responding to Trump’s latest warning, Iran renewed its threat to infrastructure in the region, including even water desalination plants.
“Following previous warnings, if Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is violated by the enemy, all energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure belonging to the U.S. and the regime in the region will be targeted,” the Iranian military’s operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran has already demonstrated its ability to hit infrastructure, not just in neighboring countries, but also in Israel, which has better air defenses.
Taking the Iranian threat into account, the U.S. may not hit power plants directly, but rather attempt to take down the Islamic Republic’s electrical grid in a more calculated way.
The U.S. could use a graphite bomb, a non-lethal weapon especially designed to disable an electrical grid without causing much damage.
One example of such weapon is the CBU-94 Blackout Bomb, which consists of a SUU-66/B tactical munitions dispenser with 202 BLU-114/B submunitions
The bomb works by spreading a dense cloud of extremely fine, chemically treated carbon filaments over air-insulated high voltage installations like transformers and power lines, causing short-circuits and subsequent disruption of the electricity supply in an area, a region or even an entire small country.
CBU-94s were successfully used to take down more than 70% of Serbia’s electricity supply during NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
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While such bombs are non-lethal and don’t cause much damage, taking down the electrical grid could be extremely harmful to civilians as it would effectively shut down critical life-support infrastructure, including hospitals and water desalination plants.
Based on this, even a limited calculated move by the U.S. against Iranian infrastructure will likely still result in a response from the Islamic Republic.
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we will bomb the goatfuckers back into the stone age…heheheh
you already live in the stone age
after observing ugly obese masculinized animal americunt female it obvious that goat better to fukk
this is only happening because the alawites and pussians are traitors. i don’t mean to call them pigs, because then it would be right to apologize to the pigs in the pigsty. alawites and pussians are not rats, because rats are quite solidary.
what the alawites and the pussians did to iran and hezbollah can only be compared to the mosatan seeds. indian farmers committed suicide because of monasatan seeds. alawites and pussians are monsatan seeds.
i am penetrate all south front anu5!
heheheh
he doesn’t have it. these are artificially created gmo plants that don’t eat with their mouths and their haven’t their ass. the alawites and the russians were thus able to betray their main ally, iran, because they have no feelings. even monsatan seeds and crops have no emotions. they have no solidarity, only greed. there is nothing useful about them, just like there is nothing useful about monsanto’s crops and seeds, just waste. pussians and alawites are something that must cease to exist.
it looks like the “powerful” shitrael is getting pounded and david’s plastic sling is on vacation. ussa unable to regime change iran. poor bastids. now trumpstein dumpstein is an angry boy
americunt ugly female bigger diek than americunt male—proven by scientific studies
it would be nice if isis-k took control of syria first because it would embarrass trump’s maga and putin’s russia to such an extent that at best the democrats would run us for twenty years.if it meant the destruction and dismemberment of traitorous russia, even better. but it would be best if newsom made bombenteppich through moscow and all the traitorous alawites (bashar al-assad is the biggest traitor) would pay for their betrayal of their allies iran and hezbollah.