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Diplomatic efforts remain fruitless as military tensions escalate
"We have a plan, because of the power of our military, that every bridge in Iran will be destroyed by 12 o'clock tomorrow night, and every power plant in Iran will be put out of service, burning, exploding and never used again," President Donald Trump said at a press conference at the White House.
If the attacks happen, he added, “it will take them 100 years to rebuild.”
Trump also gave a glowing account of the operation to rescue a missing American pilot who had been shot down in Iran. The mission involved 155 planes and hundreds of people, he said, although “a lot of it was a ruse” to distract Iranian forces from the pilot. He also revealed that the plane, a US Air Force F-15E, was shot down by a shoulder-launched missile.
His comments to reporters came after Iran presented a new 10-point peace proposal, accompanied by conditions that US representatives have already rejected as unacceptable. The full content of the Iranian plan was not made public, but diplomatic efforts have so far yielded few results, despite Trump's repeated claims of progress.
“We have to have a deal that is acceptable to me,” Trump said of the Iranian plan, which was presented through Pakistani intermediaries, adding: “and part of that deal will be that we want free flow of oil and everything else.”
He later said: "I can tell you that we have an active and willing party on the other side. They want to make a deal."
He has repeatedly threatened to bomb critical Iranian infrastructure, such as power plants and bridges, setting deadlines for opening the strait, then repeatedly pushing them back. On Sunday, he extended the deadline by a day, to Tuesday evening, U.S. time. Analysts say that without concrete progress toward peace, these postponements risk weakening the force of his warnings.
Iran said on Monday it would respond strongly if President Trump carries out the threatened strikes, which would affect millions of civilians and which many legal experts consider to be possible war crimes under international law. “If attacks on civilian targets are repeated, the subsequent phases of our offensive and retaliatory operations will be much more destructive and extensive,” Ebrahim Zolfaghari, an Iranian military spokesman, said on Monday.
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