{"id":70786,"date":"2026-04-03T08:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/is-the-us-committing-war-crimes-by-targeting-irans-civilian-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:59:53","slug":"is-the-us-committing-war-crimes-by-targeting-irans-civilian-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/is-the-us-committing-war-crimes-by-targeting-irans-civilian-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International law experts \u2018seriously concerned\u2019 about \u2018strikes on schools, health centres and homes\u2019 in contravention of Geneva conventions<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, other senior US officials and their cheerleaders appear to be embracing attacks \u2013 and threats of attacks \u2013 on Iranian civilian infrastructure, which legal experts say appears to constitute serious war crimes under international law.<\/p>\n<p>In his rambling national address on Wednesday, the US president warned that if Iran did not reach an unspecified deal with him, US forces would \u201chit each and every one of their electric-generating plants\u201d and \u201cbring [Iran] back to the stone ages \u2013 where they belong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2026\/apr\/03\/us-war-crimes-iran-civilian-infrastructure-international-law-school-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International law experts \u2018seriously concerned\u2019 about \u2018strikes on schools, health centres and homes\u2019 in contravention of Geneva conventions Donald Trump, other senior US officials and their cheerleaders appear to be embracing attacks \u2013 and threats of attacks \u2013 on Iranian civilian infrastructure, which legal experts say appears to constitute serious war crimes under international law. &#8230; <a title=\"Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/is-the-us-committing-war-crimes-by-targeting-irans-civilian-infrastructure\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran\u2019s civilian infrastructure?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}