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On Wednesday, the U.S. military bombed what appeared to be drinking water facilities in southwestern Iran, near the contested Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

It is so far unclear whether the strikes, which occurred near the village of Bemani, were an intentional attempt to destroy civilian infrastructure. Such an attack would be classified as a war crime under international law. <\/p>\n

The facilities that were bombed belong to the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company. The U.S. claims that the attacks were in response to the downing of an Apache helicopter earlier this week. Iran responded by saying the rationale for the attacks was a \u201cfalse pretext.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. must be held accountable for committing such systematic brutal attacks on civilian life-sustaining infrastructure,\u201d Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said. <\/p>\n

Water supply for around 20,000 residents was temporarily disrupted due to the attack. Iranian media indicated that the flow of water has since been restored. Still, the destruction of the water facilities is especially problematic for people living nearby, as they live under difficult conditions due to extreme heat and decades-long drought. <\/p>\n

Iran is classified as facing \u201cextremely high\u201d baseline water stress, according to the World Resources Institute. The destruction of water infrastructure during the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran \u2014 particularly damage to desalination plants \u2014 has made matters worse.<\/p>\n

As the war has dragged on for over 100 days, President Donald Trump has indicated that he is tiring of negotiating with Tehran. (His methods of negotiation \u2014 which include posting on Truth Social \u2014 have been widely criticized.)<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s descriptions of the war \u2014 particularly his rosy assessments of how the U.S. military is faring \u2014 have also been questioned. Indeed, over the past three months, the president has claimed more than three dozen times that a deal between the U.S. and Iran had been negotiated or was close to being resolved, only for negotiations to fall apart days later. Iranian officials have frequently contradicted Trump\u2019s assertions, calling into question whether he is even attempting to negotiate a deal.<\/p>\n

In a Truth Social post on Thursday morning, Trump promised that more attacks were set to come later that day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most of its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT,\u201d Trump wrote, promising to hit other civilian infrastructure, including \u201cKharg Island and other oil infrastructure points,\u201d in his post.<\/p>\n

Later in the day, Trump reneged on that plan, stating in another post that he had \u201ccancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n

International watchdog organizations have repeatedly condemned the U.S. and Israel for attacks on civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder international humanitarian law applicable to the armed conflict in the Middle East, oil, gas, and other energy infrastructure are presumptively civilian objects\u2026[A]ttacking them would be unlawfully disproportionate if the expected harm to civilians and civilian structures exceeded the anticipated military gain,\u201d read an analysis from Human Rights Watch in April.<\/p>\n

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