Earlier Thursday, Trump posted a video of a bridge being destroyed in an airstrike, captioning his post, “the biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again — Much more to follow!”
During the five weeks of U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, Trump has threatened to strike civilian infrastructure including power plants and desalinization facilities, as he tries to break the Iranian regime. The 1949 Geneva Conventions prohibit attacks on objects and infrastructure considered to be “indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.”
Under massive bombardment, Tehran is still resisting American and Israeli pressure, and is using its own leverage to essentially close the Strait of Hormuz — a critical maritime waterway — to drive up energy prices for countries around the world.
Iran has also struck oil and gas facilities across the Gulf, helping spark an escalating global energy crisis.