Well, for perspective now on President Trump's talk about bombing all of Iran's bridges and power plants,

and whether that's legal under international law, we turn to retired Lieutenant Colonel Rachel Van Lendingham.

She spent 20 years in the Air Force and is now a professor at Southwestern Law School.

Welcome back to the show. You heard in our reporting there the repeated threats by

President Trump to bomb Iranian infrastructure. He said specifically there's a plan to decimate

every bridge in Iran to destroy every power plant. You've heard the concerns, Colonel,

about this potentially being a war crime. Based on your expertise, is it?

He's both threatening a war crime and he's engaging in a war crime through that rhetoric itself.

And I'll explain that.

First of all, the law of war, that's not just international law.

It's U.S. law.

And our military members are deeply trained and steeped in this law.

The law of war prohibits measures of intimidation against a civilian population,

including threats of violence whose primary purpose is to sow terror amongst that civilian population.

Those civilians whose electricity ensures that there's refrigeration for medicine, for those

that are dependent on refrigerated medicine that provides electricity to hospitals where

their life-saving operations ongoing, where babies are being born, whose electricity is helping

ensure that the water is purified and clean.

They are terrified.

It's reasonably foreseeable to believe that such rhetoric

will so tear amongst the civilian population. And therefore, one can infer that that's what

President Trump intends. So he's committing a war crime just through that language. Second of all,

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