As President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz approached Tuesday, Iran’s government asked its citizens to do something for its country: go stand in front of the power plants.
Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, appeared in a video statement Tuesday urging “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form human chains around the country’s critical power infrastructure. Participants were asked to gather at 2 p.m. local time in front of power generation stations across the country. The campaign was officially branded “Human Chain of Iranian Youth for a Bright Tomorrow.”
“Power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth,” Rahimi said. “We will stand side by side … to say that attacking public infrastructure is a war crime.”
This is why you should not broadcast your intentions to the world on social media. If America was serious they should have bombed these sites without making it a dog and pony show.
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Brave move! Respect to Iranian people.
K-laca on
Dying there is better than suffering the consequences of the nuclear radiation that the attack would cause.
Lo2NL on
“All young athletes, go out and protest against violence!”
“No, not like that!” *hangs them*
belortik on
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this isn’t a spontaneous act of everyday Iranians and probably members of the Basij
pgreenb7285 on
Looking more and more like the end of The Hunger Games.
Wraeclast66 on
Remember when iran was on the brink of revolution a month ago lol. Trump sure fixed that.
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> Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, appeared in a video statement Tuesday urging “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form human chains around the country’s critical power infrastructure. Participants were asked to gather at 2 p.m. local time in front of power generation stations across the country. The campaign was officially branded “Human Chain of Iranian Youth for a Bright Tomorrow.”
Is this the first known case of a proper state publicly admitting to use human shields as policy?
I guess that at this point they are so confident in international law only being used to blame the other side that there is no need to hide the usage of human shields anymore.
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One side using human shields and one side who doesn’t care about civilian casualties. That’ll end well /s
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I’m gonna go out on a limb that Trump really won’t give a shit
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I find it nuts that you all seem to think that this is the crime not the war crime of attacking civilian infrastructure as a penalty.
EasyMode556 on
The number of people acting as apologists for this is appalling
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As President Donald Trump’s 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz approached Tuesday, Iran’s government asked its citizens to do something for its country: go stand in front of the power plants.
Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, appeared in a video statement Tuesday urging “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form human chains around the country’s critical power infrastructure. Participants were asked to gather at 2 p.m. local time in front of power generation stations across the country. The campaign was officially branded “Human Chain of Iranian Youth for a Bright Tomorrow.”
“Power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth,” Rahimi said. “We will stand side by side … to say that attacking public infrastructure is a war crime.”
Read more: [https://fortune.com/2026/04/07/iranian-human-chains-power-plants-trump-nuclear-weapon-civilization-will-die/](https://fortune.com/2026/04/07/iranian-human-chains-power-plants-trump-nuclear-weapon-civilization-will-die/)
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This is why you should not broadcast your intentions to the world on social media. If America was serious they should have bombed these sites without making it a dog and pony show.
Brave move! Respect to Iranian people.
Dying there is better than suffering the consequences of the nuclear radiation that the attack would cause.
“All young athletes, go out and protest against violence!”
“No, not like that!” *hangs them*
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this isn’t a spontaneous act of everyday Iranians and probably members of the Basij
Looking more and more like the end of The Hunger Games.
Remember when iran was on the brink of revolution a month ago lol. Trump sure fixed that.
> Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, appeared in a video statement Tuesday urging “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form human chains around the country’s critical power infrastructure. Participants were asked to gather at 2 p.m. local time in front of power generation stations across the country. The campaign was officially branded “Human Chain of Iranian Youth for a Bright Tomorrow.”
Is this the first known case of a proper state publicly admitting to use human shields as policy?
I guess that at this point they are so confident in international law only being used to blame the other side that there is no need to hide the usage of human shields anymore.
One side using human shields and one side who doesn’t care about civilian casualties. That’ll end well /s
I’m gonna go out on a limb that Trump really won’t give a shit
I find it nuts that you all seem to think that this is the crime not the war crime of attacking civilian infrastructure as a penalty.
The number of people acting as apologists for this is appalling