US ambassador to the UN suggests Iran’s power plants are valid military targets

On Fox News on Sunday, Mike Waltz defended Trump’s threat to attack power plants if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz.

Waltz said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard controls much of the country’s infrastructure and uses it to power its war effort. He said Trump would start by destroying “one of Iran’s largest power plants” without identifying it.

“There are gas-fired thermal power plants and other type of plants,” Waltz said, adding that “the president is not messing around.”

Under international law, power plants that benefit civilians can be targeted only if the military advantage outweighs the suffering it cases to civilians, legal scholars say. — AP