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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSecular Talk - trump threatened to obliterate Iran's energy
?si=05SK5eAwinxZAbaXI wonder if we are going to be able to heat our homes next winter?
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Secular Talk - trump threatened to obliterate Iran's energy (Original Post)
Figarosmom
7 hrs ago
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dalton99a
(94,006 posts)1. Targeting civilian energy infrastructure is a war crime
The International Committee of the Red Cross says that parts of energy systems providing essential services to civilians are in principle civilian objects, and as such are protected against direct attack and reprisals as well as incidental harm.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/ap-ukraine-says-russia-is-illegally-targeting-the-power-grid-heres-what-the-law-says/
Figarosmom
(11,729 posts)2. Yes it is. And we've seen the military not caring
About illegal orders.
Blue Full Moon
(3,435 posts)3. War criminal
Following Israel's 1981 airstrike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor (Operation Opera), then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher strongly condemned the act, describing it as a "grave breach of international law".
Eddie Haskell 60
(55 posts)4. This will be the point of no return
Iran has already shown they have the capability to retaliate. They will make entire region uninhabitable and take us down with them.
"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 US and the regime in the region will be targeted," the Iranian military's operational command Khatam Al-Anbiya said in a statement carried by Fars news agency.
Blue Full Moon
(3,435 posts)5. Attacked for no reason other than a distraction from the Epstein files.