{"id":43665,"date":"2026-04-07T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43665"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:09:08","slug":"iran-calls-on-its-youth-to-form-human-chains-around-power-plants-after-trump-warns-of-complete-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=43665","title":{"rendered":"Iran calls on its youth to form human chains around power plants after Trump warns of &#8216;complete demolition&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Iran called on its youth Tuesday to form human chains around its power plants \u2013 after President Trump threatened to decimate the Islamic Republic\u2019s energy infrastructure if it<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/us-news\/trump-gives-iran-tuesday-evening-deadline-to-open-strait-of-hormuz-after-warning-of-strikes-in-fiery-post\/\"> fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth,\u201d Alireza Rahimi, secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, said in a video aired on state TV.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials have called on students, artists, and athletes to form the human shields from 2 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Smoke and fire rise following an explosion in Isfahan, Iran. <span class=\"credit\">via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that with the participation of young people across the country, this human chain will be formed around the power plants, and it will be a sign of the youth\u2019s commitment to protecting the country\u2019s infrastructure and building a bright future,\u201d Rahimi said.<\/p>\n<p>The bloodthirsty regime is already accused of<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/world-news\/desperate-iran-recruiting-children-as-young-as-12-in-war-effort\/\"> recruiting children as young as 12<\/a> in a drive dubbed \u201cHomeland Defending Combatants for Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Amnesty International <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnestyusa.org\/press-releases\/iran-recruitment-of-child-soldiers-as-young-as-12-amounts-to-a-war-crime\/\">said it had confirmed photos<\/a> showing children wielding weapons such as AK-pattern assault rifles and standing alongside Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military personnel at checkpoints and during rallies.<\/p>\n<p>The desperate calls come after Trump promised to obliterate Tehran\u2019s energy infrastructure if a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz isn\u2019t reached by 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by 12 o\u2019clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again,\u201d he told reporters Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>President Trump speaking to reporters in the White House Monday. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>A heavily damaged building at the Azadi Sport Complex in Tehran, following a strike. <span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI mean complete demolition by 12 o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump reiterated his threat to bomb Iran back to the Stone Ages, but said he didn\u2019t want to target the country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I want to destroy their infrastructure? No,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take them 100 years to rebuild right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country, and it would never be as good as it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump seemed downplay any claims targeting power plants would amount to war crimes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know what\u2019s a war crime? Allowing a sick country with demented leadership to have a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the clock ticking, Iran reportedly put forward a 10 point ceasefire plan, which one US official described as \u201cmaximalist,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/04\/06\/iran-trump-peace-plan-ceasefire\">Axios reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump branded it a \u201csignificant step\u201d but said it was \u201cnot good enough,\u201d the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/06\/us\/politics\/trump-iran-cease-fire-proposal.html\"> New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has threatened to retaliate if the US targets its energy infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rulers of Arab countries should in order to prevent the region from going dark, make Trump understand that the Persian Gulf is not a place of gambling,\u201d Aliakbar Velayati, a senior adviser to the Ayatollah, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Drvelayati_ir\/status\/2041125288617316710\">wrote on X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>With Post wires<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/07\/world-news\/iran-calls-on-its-youth-to-form-human-chains-around-power-plants-after-trump-warns-of-complete-demolition\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran called on its youth Tuesday to form human chains around its power plants \u2013 after President Trump threatened to decimate the Islamic Republic\u2019s energy infrastructure&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}