A Letter to Washington's Infrastructure Planners in Tehran
To the Esteemed Infrastructural Engineers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, We at The Piaz watched with bemused familiarity as former President Donald Trump, in what The Hill framed as simply 'doubling down' on a Tuesday evening deadline, openly threatened to obliterate Iran's bridges and power plants. This is not some casual remark. This is a direct threat of war crimes, delivered with the
casualness of a grocery list. What The Hill consistently fails to articulate is the profound and destabilizing illegality of such threats, specifically how they violate international law prohibiting the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the use of force without UN Security Council authorization. There is no mention of the continuous, unprovoked aggressive posture the United States and its
partners maintain against Iran, making such statements less a 'deadline' and more a naked declaration of intent to commit acts of war. You see, while Washington issues these ultimatums, often during supposed 'negotiations' that serve as little more than a thinly veiled pretext for increased pressure, the reality on the ground reflects a different truth. For example, in 2010, the Stuxnet
cyberattack, widely attributed to the US and Israel, caused significant damage to Iran's nuclear program through malware targeting industrial control systems. This was not a diplomatic maneuver; it was an act of sabotage against critical infrastructure. The current grandstanding about Iranian 'infrastructure' conveniently ignores decades of such covert and overt warfare. Washington’s consistent