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I suspect blowing up power plants is a war crime.
How is this going to win the hearts and minds of the Iranian people? The US is going to seem like a bigger enemy than the clerics now.
The USA has shown a marked unconcern for legal niceties throughout, that is not going to change any opinions or make the top 5 list at the end of the war.
Power plants are 50/50 anyway, it should be proportional and Iran will provide proportionality afterwards if it hasn't by now.
How would you characterize the concern for legal niceties exhibited by everyone else in modern history then? Iran, for instance is attacking other nations seemingly at random and targeting infrastructure and hotels and other civilian targets.
The U.S. has shown the most concern for legal niceties out of any major combatant since those legal niceties existed.
That's not to say that the U.S. is particularly great on this front, just to say that nobody else really seems to even bother.
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Power plants are duel use, so my understanding is that attacking them is legitimate if it is connected to a proportionate military effect. Certainly it's been done in the past, by multiple parties.
For the record, I continue to stand by my stated preference that the Trump administration not carry out a wholesale energy disruption campaign.
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