Posted on 03/23/2026 12:10:13 AM PDT by Libloather
Iran threatened Friday to start targeting tourist sites worldwide — just as spring break kicked off across the United States.
Iranian military spokesman Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi blasted out the chilling warning on state TV as he vowed that popular tourism havens would no longer be safe for Tehran’s enemies.
“From now on, based on the information we have about you, even parks, recreational areas, and tourist destinations anywhere in the world will no longer be safe for you,” the military official said.
He stopped short of naming specific vacation destinations that could be in Iran’s line of fire.
The threats, which came as spring breakers descended across the US, renewed fears that Tehran could potentially revert to using militant attacks beyond the Middle East as a pressure tactic.
The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have already indicated they are on high alert after the US-Israeli strikes on Iran kick-started the war three weeks ago.
Iran’s fresh warning came after US officials said three more warships and roughly 2,500 additional Marines were being deployed to the Middle East.
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Is New York City a tourist site?
Would that actually be a bad thing to strike New York again?
WIPE THIS IRANIAN HUMAN DEBRIS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH
It is not just Spring Break.
Around Easter to mid April a lot of public elementary/high schools schedule vacation weeks. It is a very popular time to visit all the warmer places in the Caribbean, Hawaii, Mexico, Florida, Central America.
Tourist season typically is very busy through the end of April. Especially for the people in the northern part of the US, Canada and Europe. Then as you get into May places further north like Bermuda, Myrtle Beach start getting busy.
So, ANY of these places would be easy places to stage a terrorist attack. My son just finished a Caribbean cruise. Our waitress from Saturday night was leaving yesterday to go to Cabo. I told her to be careful. Mostly of the other tourists. The most dangerous thing in Cabo is the drunken Gringos and the predators that will try and slip something in a girl’s drink.
We haven’t had a week off in the spring since I was in elementary school. They are lucky to get 3 days here if the snow days don’t eat them. Our Spring Break at the university is the first full week of March.
Unarmed civilians are not going to conduct human wave attacks against machine guns. The regime has already killed over 30,000 people who were peacefully demonstrating. Trump is just blowing smoke if he expects unarmed people to commit mass suicide. Control of the air and the destruction of Iran’s high tech weaponry is a separate question.
I think you are correct Trump has forced the mullahs to unmask and show their homicidal tendencies toward the entire world.
He did it to the democrats.
OK, maybe it’s just me, but the media needs to quit using “Chilling” all of the time. Way overused.
I hate daily mail.
That is what they are copying
One side focuses on taking out weapons, leadership, and logistics.
One side blusters that they will go after tourists.
“”Iran threatens ‘zero restraint’ if US makes good on Trump’s ultimatum to ‘obliterate’ power plants””
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Gee, I don’t know. A chilling threat of “zero restraint”? So what they’ve done thus far was called exercising restraint?
Unless they’re counting on getting direct help from Russia or China...sounds like a paper tiger BS last ditch gasp to me. If they really want to keep FAFOing... they’re just that insane/suicidal. But we knew that. They need to be contained or eliminated. I vote for the latter, considering.
Would that really be so bad, given the nature of all the spring break stories of late?
False flag coming right up.
Attacking tourist sites, attacking tourists......
“code pinks parting in 5 star hotel in cuba crashes the ELECTRICAL grid (hospital parents die)”
Well? Are you going to condemn that?
I’m thinking, I’m thinking..........
Spring breakers are gonna be almost 100% Infidels; a high priority target for the “faithful”.
Iran is both a terrorist gang and a country but as a country they are answerable for their actions - and they have cities that can be destroyed. If they pull off some horrific Oct 7 type murder/rape spree, then the world won’t care when Trump burns the place to the ground and they descend into darkness and cannibalism. They are very vulnerable as a nation, they cannot hide like regular terrorists.
Iran should look for a way out.
Destroy the power plants, destroy the nation
https://musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2016/08/how-gulf-war-destroyed-iraqs.html
How The Gulf War Destroyed Iraq’s Electricity Network
The 1991 Gulf War shaped much of modern Iraqi history. One major way was that the opening bombing destroyed the country’s electricity network, which was never fully rebuilt because of sanctions. It is a major reason why the power supply remains so poor in Iraq today.
Starting on January 17, 1991, the U.S. led coalition began a 43 day air campaign against Iraq before the land war started. (1) At the time American official insisted that they were only going after military and transportation targets. (2) When some key infrastructure was hit, officials claimed that was collateral and unintended damage, but it was actually part of the plan. The strategic bombing campaign aimed not only to cripple Iraq’s military, but destroy the country’s infrastructure as well. That was because while the immediate goal of the war was to expel Iraq from Kuwait, Washington was hoping that the destruction would help lead to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Following this strategy Iraq’s power infrastructure was wiped out. First, metallic sheets were dropped on power stations on the first day of the war that short circuited the system, and caused blackouts. (3) Then 28 power plants were bombed in 215 sorties, along with transformers and switching yards. That shut down the national grid by the first week of the war. That destruction would have a lasting affect upon Iraq up to the present day.
The effects of the bombing were quickly apparent after the war had ended. In March 1991 the United Nations sent a survey team to Iraq to access the war damage. It said that the conditions in the country were “near apocalyptic” and that Iraq had been bombed back into “a pre-industrial age”. It noted that the lack of electricity was paralyzing society since there was no power to run things. For example, there was no power for water purification or sewage treatment plants leading to an increase in the spread of diseases. A Harvard report estimated that 17 of 20 of the nation’s generating plants were damaged by the war, and 11 of 17 were total losses. It found that four months after hostilities had ceased electricity generation was only 20-25% of prewar capacity. The Pentagon thought power capacity was down to 1920 levels when Iraq first got its independence from England. U.S. analysts believed that it would take 1-5 years to repair these facilities with western aid. That was not coming since international sanctions would remain on Iraq until the 2003 invasion because of Saddam’s non-cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors. Iraq was forced into ad hoc measures to deal with this crisis such as starving small towns of power and hording electricity for Baghdad.
By 2003 Iraq’s power grid had been cobbled back together, but the infrastructure was still under great duress due to international sanctions. Fighting, war damage, and looting would knock the national grid out again. Iraqis had high hopes that the United States would finally fix the system, but the Coalition Provisional Authority focused upon large projects with foreign companies that would take years to complete. Insurgent attacks, corruption, and poor planning would undermine many of those plans. Power capacity and production would eventually go up, but not enough to keep up with demand leading to constant blackouts, especially during the hot summer months, sparking an annual protest movement.
Iraq is still years away from solving this problem, which all began with the Gulf War in 1991. Washington wanted to undermine Saddam by taking out the power grid, but its hoped for coup never materialized, and the sanctions it kept in place afterward to contain Iraq meant that the electricity system was never fully repaired. That would blowback on the Americans later on when they occupied Iraq after 2003 and had to try to solve its own legacy from the Gulf War.
FOOTNOTES
1. Gellman, Barton, “Storm Damage in the Persian Gulf,” Washington Post National Weekly Edition, 7/8-14/91
2. Lewis, Paul, “U.N. Survey Calls Iraq’s War Damage Near-Apocalyptic,” New York times, 3/22/91
3. Tyler, Patrick, “Iraq Devastation Worse Than Allies Intended,” San Francisco Chronicle, 6/3/91
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