On Saturday March 21, President Trump said that unless Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz to all vessels within the next 48 hours, the US would “obliterate” Iran’s power plants. Within hours the Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf posted on X that if Iran's power plants and infrastructure were targeted, Iran would destroy vital infrastructure, including energy and desalination facilities critical for drinking water in Gulf nations. As discussed in the March 9 Weekly Technical Review, “ The Arabian Peninsula has no rivers. It has almost no natural freshwater. Eight of the...
