“International law recognizes attacks on civilian infrastructure—like those Russian president Vladimir Putin has been carrying out on Ukraine for years—as war crimes. The Geneva Convention specifically prohibits attacks on drinking water, so Trump’s threat to attack the desalination plants that make seawater drinkable is … not only stupid because Iran could do the same to other Gulf states, but ‘also, quite obviously,...very illegal.’” #Politics #USPolitics #IranWsr https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-30-2026