Iran vowed response on Sunday to US President Donald Trump’s Hormuz threats, warning it will hit energy and desalination infrastructure if Washington targets energy infrastructure in the Islamic Republic.
“If Iran’s fuel and energy infrastructure is attacked, then fuel, energy, information technology systems and desalination infrastructure used by America and the regime in the region will be struck,” Col. Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya military command headquarters, warned on Sunday, according to the IRNA Iranian state news agency.
Desalination, the process of creating drinkable water from seawater, is critical to supplying water across Israel and many of Iran’s Gulf neighbors.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian parliament, echoed those threats in a post on X on Sunday, warning that “critical infrastructure, energy and oil across the region will be irreversibly destroyed and oil prices will rise for a long time” if Iran’s power plants are struck.
بلافاصله پس از هدف قرار گرفتن نیروگاههای برق و زیرساخت در کشورمان، زیرساختهای حیاتی و زیرساختهای انرژی و نفت در سراسر منطقه اهداف مشروع تلقی شده و به نحو بازگشتناپذیر منهدم خواهند شد و قیمت نفت برای مدتها بالاتر خواهد رفت. وألقِ ما في يمينك تَلْقَفْ ما صَنَعوا.
— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) March 22, 2026
Trump on Saturday evening threatened on Saturday to “hit and obliterate” Iranian power plants if the country fails to fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” He wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Source: Agencies (translated and edited by Al-Manar)