At 10:44AM (Australia Eastern Daylight Time) on Sunday, U.S. President Trump made the boldest and most dangerous threat of the war against Iran so far: that if the Iranians did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours of that “exact point in time”, the U.S. would start destroying Iranian power plants, “STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST”.
At the time of publishing this article, that deadline is now only a little over a day away.
In short order, this prompted a response from the Iranian military command that if the United States were to make good on its threat, Iran would strike the energy, desalination and information technology infrastructure of the U.S. and its allies across the Middle East.
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