Thousands of people formed human chains this Tuesday in front of power plants and bridges in different cities in Iran to protest against the threats of attacks by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, who has warned that he will attack these infrastructures if Tehran does not reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The US president once again warned on Sunday, April 5, that he would unleash “hell” in Iran when the ultimatum he gave them to unblock Hormuz expires, and later hinted that he would extend the limit for another 24 hours, until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 7th in Washington (00:00 GMT on Wednesday).
That is why in Tehran hundreds of people gathered this Tuesday in front of the country’s largest power plant, Damavand, carrying Iranian flags and condemning American threats through banners.
In the western city of Kermanshah, a group of protesters gathered in front of the Bisotun power plant, where they carried photographs of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his successor and son Mojtaba Khamenei, denouncing that attacking electrical infrastructure constitutes a war crime, according to the agency. More.
Human chains also formed in front of the thermal power plant in the northwestern city of Tabriz and the Shahid Rajaei power plant in the northern city of Qazvín.
The mobilizations were replicated in other parts of the country. In Dezful (southwest) students formed a human chain on the city’s historic bridge, more than 1,700 years old.
Iran 🇮🇷 is deploying civilian human shields to sites across the country, including the White Bridge in Ahvaz, the Old Bridge in Dezful, the Bistoon power plant in Khermanshah, and the Rajaee power plant in Qazvin pic.twitter.com/GKJ1q2Vr0M
— Aleph א (@no_itsmyturn) April 7, 2026
Response to ultimatum
The president of the United States assured this Monday in a press conference at the White House that all of Iran “can be annihilated in one night” and that this could happen “tomorrow night”, in reference to the ultimatum he has given to Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
Trump announced this weekend that he was extending until Tuesday the ultimatum he had given to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (through which an important part of the hydrocarbons exported globally passes), a passage that Iran maintains partially closed after the start of the US and Israeli attacks on February 28.
At the same time, he said that he believes that Iran is negotiating “in good faith” with his country and that “they would like to be able to reach an agreement” before the deadline he has given them expires.
This Tuesday, the president insisted on his position through Truth Social: “Tonight an entire civilization will die, never to return. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will. (…) 47 years of extortion, corruption and death will come to an end. God bless the great people of Iran!”
That is why the Iranian Government has called on young people to form human chains around power plants and bridges throughout Iran.
These actions are part of a government campaign to “stage a symbol of unity and resistance against the enemy,” according to what the Deputy Minister of Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Sports, Alireza Rahimi, said this morning.
Rahimi indicated that “the youth of Iran, with any ideology or preference, will unite to tell the world that attacking public infrastructure is a war crime.”
Figures of Iranian culture, including the Iranian musician Ali Gamsari and the singer Benyamin Bahadori, yesterday began to settle in the vicinity of power plants and bridges in the face of Trump’s threats to “unleash hell” if Tehran does not reopen Hormuz before 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday the 7th in Washington (00:00 GMT on Wednesday).
The Iranian musician Ali Gamsari settled yesterday near the Damavand power plant, the largest in the country, “with the aim of preventing attacks against Iran’s infrastructure.”
Also, singer Benyamin Bahadori spent the night on the Tabiat Bridge in Tehran, and announced that he will do so tonight as well, given that Trump also threatened to destroy bridges.
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