President Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iranian power plants set off a cascade of alarm bells around the region with Tehran saying it would respond in kind. Oil-exporting Gulf countries said Iranian reprisals could further endanger the world economy.
Trump made his threat in a social-media post late Saturday, saying that if Iran doesn’t fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which carries a fifth of the world’s oil supply, within 48 hours the U.S. would act. Iran contended that the U.S. threat raised issues under international law against targeting civilian infrastructure.
Meantime, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations warned on Sunday about Iran's potential to launch longer-range ballistic missiles that could hit much of Europe. It comes days after Iran carried out one of its farthest missile launches on record, targeting Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-U.K. military base in the Indian Ocean.
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