Iranian officials on Tuesday urged young people to form human chains to protect power plants, as Donald Trump warned that a “whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran does not meet his latest deadline to agree to a deal that includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
While Iran cannot match the sophistication of U.S. and Israeli weaponry or their dominance in the air, its chokehold on the strait is roiling the world economy and raising the pressure on Trump both at home and abroad to find a way out of the standoff.
Officials involved in diplomatic efforts said talks were ongoing, but Iran has rejected the latest American proposal, and it was unclear if a deal would come in time to head off Trump’s threatened attacks. World leaders and experts warned that strikes as destructive as Trump threatened could constitute a war crime.
Trump threatened that a “whole civilization will die tonight,
I haven’t seen any news media yet show the courage to call this what it is, a threat of genocide.
Literally. In my mind, anyone who voted Republican is complicit with murder. I’m just more disgusted each and every day.
How can that be. The protest votes against the Democrats (including non-voters) were supposed to be the anti-genocide votes. I am shocked. Nobody could have seen this coming. Everybody is surprised.
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That’s quite the global vote of non confidence.
