Trump's threatened destruction of Iranian infrastructure could be a war crime, legal experts say

US President Donald Trump said Monday that he was “not at all” concerned about the risk of committing war crimes in Iran if he carried out his threat to bomb bridges and power plants. Experts in military law, however, say that deliberately bombing civilian infrastructure is a violation of international humanitarian law and may constitute a war crime.

Trump's threatened destruction of Iranian infrastructure could be a war crime, legal experts say
US President Donald Trump said Monday that he was “not at all” concerned about the risk of committing war crimes in Iran if he carried out his threat to bomb bridges and power plants. Experts in military law, however, say that deliberately bombing civilian infrastructure is a violation of international humanitarian law and may constitute a war crime.