THE TELEGRAPH: US president threatens to ‘conclude lovely stay’ in Iran by blowing up country’s energy infrastructure
Donald Trump said he was willing to end the Iran war without a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The US president suggested that if negotiations collapse he would “obliterate” the country’s energy and water facilities but leave the waterway in Iranian control.
He wrote on Truth Social: “Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business’, we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their electric generating plants, oil wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinisation plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched’.”
The comments suggest the US could abandon the war in Iran without finding a way to reinstate freedom of navigation in the Gulf, presumed to be a key war goal. » | Henry Bodkin | Jerusalem Correspondent | Monday, March 30, 2026
This irresponsible and mercurial president makes the Mullahs and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran look positively reasonable!
If Trump were to follow up on his cruel and ludicrous threats, not only would he cause a humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions by denying millions of people access to potable water, but he would also send the whole western economic system into freefall! As to his own legacy, forget it! He wouldn’t have one. He would be vilified henceforward by all and sundry. Trump, by starting this illegal and quite unnecessary war, has got himself into a pickle of his own making. The one act of starting this war alone has shown the world just how poor Trump’s judgment is, and it calls into question once again the state of the geriatric’s mental health. — © Mark Alexander
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