Iran responds to Trump power plant threat with oil warning

Iran’s parliament speaker warned that any attack on his country’s power plants or infrastructure would trigger retaliatory strikes by Tehran on energy and oil facilities across the Middle East. 

The comments by Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf were in response to a warning by President Donald Trump that Tehran had 48 hours to re-open the Strait of Hormuz or the U.S. would “obliterate” Iranian power plants. 

Ghalibaf said Sunday that strikes on Iranian sites as threatened by Trump would mean that Iran would consider energy and oil facilities across the region “legitimate targets” and would be destroyed in an “irreversible” manner.  This would keep the oil prices high, he added, adding to energy market turbulence caused by Tehran in effect blocking the Strait.

This is a developing story to be updated.