Videos circulating online show Iranian civilians gathering around power plants, bridges, and other critical infrastructure in a visible show of solidarity, as tensions escalate sharply following a warning from Donald Trump.
Footage and images shared across social media and reported by international outlets depict groups forming human chains at strategic sites, with some participants waving national flags and standing guard near energy facilities. The gatherings appear to be a coordinated civilian response amid fears of imminent large-scale strikes targeting infrastructure.
The mobilisation follows Trump’s most explicit threat to date, in which he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Iran fails to meet a deadline tied to ongoing conflict and demands surrounding the Strait of Hormuz. The ultimatum has intensified already volatile conditions, with both rhetoric and military activity escalating in recent days.
Iranian officials have encouraged public participation in protecting national assets, framing the human chains as symbolic acts of unity and resistance.
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As Trump issued his most explicit threat yet, videos circulating online show civilians gathering around power stations and key infrastructure… pic.twitter.com/xHnuDV8usw
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I wonder if this strategy from the Iranians was deployed by the British in the days of the Māori wars what the Māori’s would do?
The Maori would have killed them all then had a feast.
And the university historians, professors and media of this era would be saying what great noble warriors the Maori were.
Trump had Iranian civilians largely on his side when attacking the regime. When threatening to attack civil infrastructure he loses support pretty quick. Not sure what the strategy is here.
You mean Mossad and CIA assets on side, don’t you? There was never any support for these clowns and after murdering the equivalent of the Pope, in a stridently religious population, they are utterly screwed. This is just tit for tat reactive warfare because failing a nuclear attack(which would ruin energy infrastructure across the region of the Middle East and cripple the West) its all they have left.
Actually that was propaganda. They never had the support of the Iranian people
I don’t think they encouraged participation, more like they made them stand by targets. I don’t believe Iran is reasonable in that way somehow.
https://www.youtube.com/live/k-ZXf1Gd1-Y?si=7a0KT547H5nOO_4F
prof marandi/ nima
Respect to the Iranian population a d its gvt
Iran employs the classic underdog’s strategy – they patiently waited till the USA started open war then managed to lock the USA into narrow and limited choices which just keep worsening the costs to the USA. http://www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026/04/07/3559904/if-trump-makes-a-mistake-aramco-yanbu-fujairah-pipeline-will-be-added-to-iran-s-targets-source
The USA has no way out – their choices range from bad to worse.
Brave brave people, I have nothing but admiration for the Iranians facing down terrorists who murder their children and threaten the well being of their entire nation.
Strategy becomes obvious if the war is seen as a conflict between:
– unipolar world order vs multipolar world order
– petrodollar vs other payment methods (petro-yuan is the current currency of confrontation)
– US-led western hegemony vs BRICS-led Global South
The USA is locked into a war where the oil price goes up more and more as they keep bombing Iran – and this makes Iran and the BRICS countries richer while the west gets poorer
BRICS and the Global South clearly benefit economically if the war continues – this is why Russia and China vetoed Bahrain’s resolution to use military force to open the strait https://en.ypagency.net/389186
Some good analysis here https://en.ypagency.net/389194
and here https://en.ypagency.net/389198
Several KC-135 tankers left Tel Aviv an hour or two ago https://x.com/visionergeo/status/2041609215957991888
Ongoing misinformation from the whitehouse https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/07/766446/press-tv-exclusive-us-suffered-strategic-defeat-failed-isfshan-operation
@anon 7:22am I suggest to you that the women and children holding white feathers at parihaka ahead of the military intervention there were actually a human shield pushed out front by the criminals running the place….maoris knew that the British did not willingly attack women and children- and especially not in front of hundreds of onlookers.
So the troops picked their way through the women and children only injuring the hand of one boy accidentally…arrested the criminals – and then after they’d done everything perfectly- then they disgraced themselves from the day after.
However te kingi and his criminal buddies were using the women and children as human shields.
The white feathers were a symbol borrowed from the peaceful moriori on the chathams….and one of the parihaka leaders knew that because he was at parihaka just two years prior eating mori oris
Do you do stand up…..?
Surely no one thinks these young Iranians and their families willingly became human shields?!!… These terror groups USE, often force, the people, along with using civilian places like homes and schools etc, to “hide” their military weapons and assets where they meet or from where they launch their attacks. The Iranian military regime target populations while the US and Israel warn the civilian population before they attack so that they can get away from the buildings and areas used by the Iranian or other terrorist military organisations to carry out their operations.