{"id":372732,"date":"2026-04-03T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:32:08","slug":"bridges-next-then-electric-power-plants-trump-threatens-irans-civilian-infrastructure-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/372732\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants!\u2019 Trump threatens Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier Thursday, Trump posted a video of a bridge being destroyed in an airstrike, captioning his post, \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116336091138489301\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116336091138489301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down<\/a>, never to be used again \u2014 Much more to follow!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cindispensable to the survival of the civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under massive bombardment, Tehran is still resisting American and Israeli pressure, and is using its own leverage to essentially close the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a critical maritime waterway \u2014 to drive up energy prices for countries around the world. <\/p>\n<p>Iran has also struck oil and gas facilities across the Gulf, helping spark an escalating global energy crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier Thursday, Trump posted a video of a bridge being destroyed in an airstrike, captioning his post, \u201cthe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20569,5866,54,1435,161309,4414,42,4426,87,46,29156,47,2899,43,5839,9631,40,38,41,39,109444,1032,2201,159387],"class_list":{"0":"post-372732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-bridges","9":"tag-crisis","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-energy-crisis","13":"tag-energy-prices","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-infrastructure","16":"tag-iran","17":"tag-israel","18":"tag-maritime","19":"tag-middle-east","20":"tag-military","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-oil","23":"tag-pentagon","24":"tag-top-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topnews","27":"tag-topstories","28":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-war","31":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}