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Secular Talk - trump threatened to obliterate Iran's energy (Original Post) Figarosmom 12 hrs ago OP
Targeting civilian energy infrastructure is a war crime dalton99a 11 hrs ago #1
Yes it is. And we've seen the military not caring Figarosmom 11 hrs ago #2
War criminal Blue Full Moon 11 hrs ago #3
This will be the point of no return Eddie Haskell 60 11 hrs ago #4
Attacked for no reason other than a distraction from the Epstein files. Blue Full Moon 11 hrs ago #5

dalton99a

(94,016 posts)
1. Targeting civilian energy infrastructure is a war crime
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 12:48 AM
11 hrs ago
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/

Blue Full Moon

(3,437 posts)
3. War criminal
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 01:19 AM
11 hrs ago

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
Sun Mar 22, 2026, 01:29 AM
11 hrs ago

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.

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