UN Ambassador On Trump Bombing Nuclear Plant: All Options Are On The Table
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz refused to take the threat of more war crimes against Iran from this reckless regime off the table during an interview on CBS this Sunday.
Waltz was asked by Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan about Trump's latest rant over the weekend, where he threatened to bomb Iranian power plants if Iran doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz by Monday. When Brennan asked if that included a nuclear power plant in Tehran as well, Waltz tried to hedge a bit, but wouldn't take it off the table.
BRENNAN: Okay, but in this case, in that clarification, the reason I'm asking you is when the president says he's going to bomb energy infrastructure, civilian energy infrastructure, is he going to bomb a nuclear power plant or is that off the table?
WALTZ: Well, I would never take anything off the table for the president, certainly not on national television. However, there are larger plants. There's one outside of Tehran. There are others outside of other cities that are gas fired, thermal powered.
I think the important point here is to understand the IRGC, a declared terrorist organization not only by us, but a number of European countries controls a huge swath of Iran's critical infrastructure, their economy, and certainly many of their governing institutions.
And so to the extent were degrading their military capability and their defense industrial base, all options should be on the table and the president's made that very clear.