{"id":639541,"date":"2026-07-22T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639541"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:40:00","slug":"trump-vows-us-will-destroy-a-bridge-or-power-plant-for-each-iranian-attack-on-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639541","title":{"rendered":"Trump Vows US Will Destroy A Bridge Or Power Plant For Each Iranian Attack On Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Vows US Will Destroy A Bridge Or Power Plant For Each Iranian Attack On Shipping<\/span><\/p>\n

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Update(0940ET)<\/u>:<\/strong>\u00a0More telegraphing of intent from President Trump in the below Truth Social Post… he said the US military will “bomb and destroy” one bridge or power plant – including in Tehran – each time the Iranian military shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. This comes a day after he unveiled the US military plans to conduct a large bombing of Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear complex, which is heavily fortified.<\/p>\n

But the Iranians have already long demonstrated they won’t alter course in the face of such threats, especially bluster from Trump over social media, and so this unlikely to be any kind of fix for Washington, as Tehran has vowed to keep control of Hormuz at all costs. The Pentagon has argued that things like bridges are ‘dual use’ as the Iranian military uses them to get supplies from one region to another, while international monitors have highlighted the potential for war crimes. The Iranians have in turn widened attacks on Gulf states to include key civic infrastructure, like water desalination plants (in Kuwait) – each time their own infrastructure gets hit.<\/p>\n

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Amid continued fighting which has included explosions heard in Tehran overnight and in the south, Iran’s leadership has condemned the Trump administration’s “obsessive focus on Kolang Kouh where no nuclear activity is taking place is nothing more than a fabricated pretext for aggression, destruction, and sabotage<\/strong>,” according to Foreign Minister spokesman Esmail Baghaei in a\u00a0post on X<\/a>, referring to Pickaxe Mountain.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that all of Iran’s nuclear activity has long been fully declared to the IAEA, and so the repeat threats out of Washington to mount a major attack on it is a “flagrant violation” of UN charter and international law.\u00a0Trump had said the day prior that the US military will be hitting Pickaxe mountain “pretty soon very heavily and there is nothing they can do about it<\/strong>.“<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Even some supporters have quested why the US Commander-in-Chief would so casually telegraph his intentions<\/strong>, saying the Pentagon loses an operational edge in revealing such plans.<\/p>\n

There’s been a lot of sudden focus on Pickaxe Mountain, though it had largely been absent from all prior media coverage of the war, due to Israeli intelligence feeding it to US mainstream press. “Israeli intelligence believes\u00a0Iran\u00a0moved thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges into tunnels deep inside a mountain last fall<\/strong>, Israeli and U.S. officials say, a development that would heighten concerns that Tehran could reconstitute its nuclear program,” The Wall Street Journal<\/em> wrote<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“Israel\u00a0passed along the intelligence findings to the U.S., saying the centrifuges were transferred to the Pickaxe Mountain site last fall after the 12-day war in June when American and Israeli strikes pummeled Iran\u2019s three main nuclear sites,” it added.<\/p>\n

And now, by all accounts,\u00a0more aircraft, refueling planes, and heavy military hardware continue to be transferred from Europe and into the Central Command area of responsibility<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Iranians might view this as more simply extra targets to be taken out, however, as Gulf countries continue to see inbound attacks. Missile alerts have been sounding Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, and again in Bahrain. ISNA reports (via Newsquawk<\/em>): Drone and missile attacks on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and US base in Saudi Arabia targeted<\/strong>:<\/p>\n