Related full tweet:
If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Giving out an ultimatum to blow up civilian infrastructure is a war crime right
I’m not sure if he’s really thought this one through.
Doesn’t look like he’s left himself a lot of wiggle room to back down.
I don’t think Iran is going to comply.
edit: I kinda wonder why Iran isn’t pushing a lot harder to manipulate public opinion. Fake photos of petrol prices. Rumours of fuel shortages. Rumours about the Trump family profiting somehow. Rumours that Bibi was going to release unredacted Epstein Kompromat. Plans to draft people for war in Iran. Even the dems could be doing this really.
It does not need to be fake photos. The financial cost is real, a trump is blatant about his family corruption.
Even if there was a media campaign the USA is a controlled media, so it wouldn’t be shown, if it did people would either forgive it because USA is always a winner attitude or they would disassociate blame AI etc.
You had citizens being shot and that was not enough to provoke a turn around.
They do. I have seen public statements by Iranian officials, and even memes (mostly AI), here on lemmy.
But they’re mostly in Parsi and Arabic, since that’s the audience they care about. Iran is trying to end the US threat against them, which probably means removing US bases in the Middle East and getting the Gulf powers on their side. So they don’t talk about rising fuel prices, they talk about Palestine, the massacre of the schoolgirls, and freedom in general.