ATTACKS ON CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE ARE

BANNED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." - President Donald J. Trump (Truth Social, 4-5-26)

Under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute, attacks on civilian objects are prohibited unless they are definitively and directly used for military purposes, and even then, any operation must avoid disproportionate harm to civilians. Striking a structure with clear civilian use and causing reported civilian casualties fails to meet these legal standards and represents a breach of the principle of distinction and proportionality.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions (August 12, 1949):

Practice relating to Rule 54.
Attacks against Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population
Section A. Attacks against objects

I. Treaties
Additional Protocol I

Article 54(2) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides:
It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove, or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as foodstuffs, agricultural areas for the production of foodstuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations and supplies and irrigation works, for the specific purpose of denying them for their sustenance value to the civilian population or to the adverse Party, whatever the motive, whether in order to starve out civilians, to cause them to move away, or for any other motive.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, Article 54(2). Article 54 was adopted by consensus. CDDH, Official Records, Vol. VI, CDDH/SR.42, 27 May 1977, p. 208.
Additional Protocol II

Customary IHL - Practice relating to rule 54 Attacks against Objects Indispensable to the Survival of the Civilian Population

Practice relating to the Geneva Convention 1949, the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts

Geneva Conventions of 1949, Additional Protocols and Their Commentaries

Summary of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Their Additional Protocols PDF

Karaj B1 bridge attack (Wikipedia)

Iranian bridge cut in half by strike as Trump warns of ‘much more to follow’ (BBC, 4-2-26)

Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure? (The Guardian, 4-3-26)