US President Donald Trump says the US has a plan to blow up every bridge and every power plant in Iran within four hours tomorrow night if Tehran does not capitulate to his demands. “We have a plan… where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o’clock tomorrow night, where every power plant will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again, I mean, complete demolition, by 12 o’clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we want that to happen,” he says.
“We don’t want that,” he adds, noting that the US may end up helping Iran rebuild, in which case, he would not want to have to reconstruct expensive infrastructure like that. He says Iran did not take him seriously before, leading him to order the demolition of Tehran’s largest bridge last week within minutes of talks falling apart.“Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No. It would take them 100 years to rebuild,” he says.
“If we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country… and the only way they’re going to be able to rebuild their country is to utilize the genius of the United States of America,” he claims. Asked whether he would accept Iran charging toll in the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran reopens the channel, Tru mp suggests the US could be the one charging such tolls. “Why shouldn’t we? We’re the winner. We won. They are militarily defeated,” he says.He later appears to back off the idea. “We have to have a deal that’s acceptable to me, and part of the deal is going to be that we want free traffic of oil and everything else,” he says. (Source)
