Members of the Trump administration leak to reporters that the president is bluffing when he threatens Iran. but on Sunday Trump threatened Iranian power plants.
Trump posted on Truth Social in part:
We are offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it, because if they don’t, the United States will take out every power plant and every bridge in Iran. NO MORE Mr. Nice guy! They will come down quickly, they will come down easily and if they don’t accept the DEAL, it will be my honor to do what needs to be done, what other presidents should have done with Iran over the last 47 years.
Amnesty International said in a statement after Trump first threatened to commit war crimes: “International humanitarian law strictly prohibits direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects. The US President’s threat of extermination and irreparable destruction blatantly destroys the core rules of international humanitarian law, with potentially catastrophic consequences for more than 90 million people. It could threaten the commission of genocide, a crime recognized by the Genocide Convention and by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court is defined as the commission of one or more defined acts ‘with intent’ to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group as such.’”
We’ve previously discussed what it means for Trump and members of his administration to potentially commit war crimes, but what could it mean for the troops who could be asked by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to commit crimes that many Americans increasingly view as genocide?
