The IRGC issued a statement this morning not only warning those countries hosting U.S. bases that they share responsibility for U.S. aggression, but also accusing the United States of shifting to a strategy of war crimes. “By committing war crimes, it sought to conceal its defeat on the battlefield, attacking hospitals, bridges, railways, airports, ports, telecommunications centers, and similar civilian infrastructure, and killing civilians, in an attempt to preserve its position through crime and dishonor instead of combat,” it said.
The statement said further that “the countries hosting the aggressor U.S. military, which have allowed their territories to be used for attacks against Iran, should prepare to receive a corresponding response, and activate their civil defense units to protect their citizens and move them away from potential targets.”
The war crimes Iran accused the US of committing include strikes early Saturday damaged bridges, tunnels, electricity lines and a desalination plant, cutting water to villages and leaving several dead. The desalination plant is located in Jask, on the coast roughly 300 km west of Chabahar. A member of the Iranian Parliament representing Jask, Abdolkarim Hashemi, told Tasnim that the attack on the desalination plant cut off water supply to 30 villages but that repairs were already underway.
