Iran Taunts Bloodthirsty Trump With Human Chain Videos
April 7, 2026
The Daily Beast
Anadolu / Anadolu via Getty ImagesIranian officials are deploying every weapon in their arsenal against Donald Trump—including their own citizens.In a video message, Iranian official Alireza Rahimi urged “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students, and their professors” to form human chains around power plants, following Trump’s shocking warning on Truth Social that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if a deal is not reached to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by 8 p.m.
Tuesday.“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump posted Tuesday morning, in an ultimatum critics have decried as a war crime. “I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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