Trump Threatens War Crimes in Iran After Double-Tap on Major Bridge
April 3, 2026
The New Republic
President Donald Trump is bragging about committing war crimes in Iran—and promising to commit even more. The United States military executed a double-tap strike on a highway bridge outside of Tehran, according to a U.S. official who spoke anonymously to The New York Times Thursday.The two strikes reportedly struck the bridge roughly an hour apart, with the second arriving while emergency responders, who are considered protected civilians, were assisting the wounded.In a post on Truth Social Thursday night, the U.S.
president appeared to celebrate that strike and promise more destruction like it. “Our Military, the greatest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the World, hasn’t even started destroying what’s left in Iran. Bridges next, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done, FAST!” Trump wrote. The military official claimed the strike was a planned military supply route for Iran’s missile and drone forces, but Iran’s deputy governor of Alborz Ghodratollah Seif flatly denied that characterization, according to the Times.Seif said that there was “absolutely no military activity” on the bridge. The dead and wounded reportedly included civilians who had been picnicking in a nearby park for the final day of the Persian New Year. A former State Department lawyer told the Times that the bridge appeared to have been “targeted not to provide any military advantage but in the hopes of coercing Tehran and generating content.”Of course, extensive destruction not justified by a military necessity is a war crime, and these wouldn’t be the first the U.S. military has committed in Trump’s reckless war.
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