48 hours or the lights go out - Trump threatens Iran with attacks on its power plants

Donald Trump spends the weekend in Florida. Between golf and ocean views, he turns to his computer and issues an ultimatum. No press conference, no briefing, no secretary of state beside him – a post on social media, and the clock starts ticking. 48 hours. That is how much time he gives Iran to fully open the Strait of Hormuz. If Tehran does not respond, the United States will attack Iranian power plants. Trump writes that he will “destroy various power plants, starting with the largest.” OK, yesterday Trump said the United States does not need the Strait of Hormuz. Apparently today it does, maybe because it is Sunday.

You read the sentence. And then you think of the 90 million people who are celebrating Nowruz right now – without internet, without connection, in the silence of a shut down country. And now without electricity. Power plants are not military targets in the usual sense. They supply hospitals, water pumps, heating systems, cold chains. Their failure does not hit the Revolutionary Guards – it hits the man who turns on the light in the morning, the woman visiting her child in the hospital, the city that simply wants to function.

Trump knows that. Or he does not think about it. Both are equally dangerous.

The timing is no coincidence. The Strait of Hormuz remains blocked, oil is not flowing, prices are rising, and economic pressure on the United States grows with each week. The Treasury Department has already eased sanctions on Iranian oil – so that China does not stand as the sole beneficiary while America is fighting. And now Trump threatens to destroy the infrastructure of the same country whose oil he has just released. With one hand easing sanctions. With the other destroying power plants. Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace has already summarized this contradiction in a single sentence – and she is from Trump’s own party.

The fourth Saturday of the war. And Trump says the war will end when he feels it in his bones, once again.

Thirteen American soldiers are dead. Over 1,300 civilians in Iran. More than 1,000 in Lebanon. A kindergarten in Rishon LeZion hit – empty, fortunately. A child in Ahvaz hit – not empty, dead.

And somewhere in Florida a man types an ultimatum, sets a deadline, and then likely goes to dinner.

Within 48 hours, Trump had previously declared the war won. Then he rejected a ceasefire. Then he said they were close to their goals – which goals remained unclear. The Strait of Hormuz did not interest the United States, it would open on its own at some point. Then he threatened to open it by force. Now he sets a deadline and announces attacks on power plants.

This is not a strategic shift. This is not a tactical maneuver. This is a man conducting war the way he sold real estate – loud, contradictory, and always convinced that the next sentence replaces the previous one. The problem is: rockets do not replace sentences. And a destroyed power plant does not light up again because the president posts something different the next morning.

The 48 hours are running. The Middle East is burning. And peace and war lie in the hands of a man waiting for a feeling in his bones. 2026 – war and peace in the hands of madmen. The rest counts the dead.

To be continued .....