US senator warns Trump planned Iran strikes would be 'war crime'

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy accused President Donald Trump on Friday of preparing attacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran that he said could constitute war crimes.

“Trump is calling reporters today to tell them he is going to commit mass war crimes next week,” Murphy wrote on X, urging Republican leaders to stop him.

He argued that bombing bridges and power plants in Iran would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz and warned that advisers were encouraging Trump to target civilian sites in order to provoke unrest and potentially destabilize the regime.

Murphy also said experts on the Geneva Conventions consider bombing aimed at inducing political panic to be a war crime.