New Delhi:
US-Iran War Live Updates: US President Donald Trump said the military had plans to destroy all bridges and power plants in Iran over a four-hour period if his peace deal deadline is not met. “I mean complete demolition by 12 o’clock (midnight), and it’ll happen over a period of four hours – if we wanted to,” he said.
Trump previously set an 8 pm Washington time on Tuesday for Iran to agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. He had earlier in an expletive-laden social media post threatened to attack civilian infrastructure inside Iran, including bridges and power plants, if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by his stated deadline.
Trump had given Iran 10 days as of March 26 to open the key maritime route, through which 20 per cent of the world’s oil passes, after Iran maintained a chokehold on it since the Middle East war began on February 28.
In response, Iran’s culture minister Sayed Reza Salihi-Amiri called Trump an “unstable, delusional figure”, who lacks “personal, behavioral and verbal balance”. He maintained that the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to Iran’s enemies.
Attacks continue to be traded in the Middle East region, with Iran hitting power, water desalination and oil plants in Kuwait and an oil facility in Bahrain
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