If Donald Trump follows through on his threat to destroy Iran‘s power plants, the vast nation will face a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ of monstrous proportions with millions struggling to get food, experts have warned.

Not only that, but if Washington targets the Islamic Republic’s essential infrastructure, the West can expect a terrifying wave of terrorist attacks and the globe will be plunged into financial Armageddon.

Tehran has a tight deadline of 8pm ET tonight – or 1am BST tomorrow – to reopen the Strait of Hormuz before Trump unleashes the dreaded attack. 

The US leader announced at last night’s press conference he would bomb the country so hard he would send it back to the ‘Stone Ages’ if a deal wasn’t reached, claiming: ‘The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night. I hope I don’t have to do it.’

He starkly added: ‘Every bridge in Iran will be decimated by tomorrow night. Every power plant will be out of business, burning, exploding and never to be used again – I mean complete demolition.’ 

It came after his expletive-laden post on Truth Social on Sunday, where he announced: ‘Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. 

‘There will be nothing like it!!! Open the F***in’ Strait, you crazy b*****ds, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP.’

Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, said in a social media post on April 5 that Trump was ‘ranting like an unhinged madman’ and ‘threatening possible war crimes’.

That’s because the destruction of power plants would impact everything in the country from running water to hospital emergency rooms, turning life for 90 million civilians into a never-ending nightmare.

Food production and distribution networks would collapse, spreading hunger and widespread food scarcity, while water pumping stations would stop functioning, triggering a rampant spread of preventable diseases. 

Mass unemployment would run rife as businesses are forced to shutdown, and civilians would be cut off from electricity – deepening their isolation from the rest of the world after a months-long internet blackout.

‘Hitting power plants and desalination plants, for example, may be connected to some plausible military advantage, but that’s a very hard test to satisfy, and the details matter,’ David J Scheffer, a former US ambassador at large for war crimes, told Bloomberg.

‘Ordering a Stone-Age obliteration of a country’s civilian infrastructure would defy the proportionality test in the law of war and international humanitarian law.’

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