{"id":29588,"date":"2026-03-23T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29588"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:41:00","slug":"iran-points-at-tit-for-tat-retaliation-if-power-plants-targeted-statement","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/iran-points-at-tit-for-tat-retaliation-if-power-plants-targeted-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran points at tit for tat retaliation if power plants targeted: Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The statement seemingly retracted earlier threats to desalination plants in the region, which are crucial for providing drinking water in Gulf countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;The US President (Donald Trump) has claimed that the Revolutionary Guards intends to attack the water desalination plants and cause hardship to the people of the countries in the region,&#8221; the statement shared on state media said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">On Saturday, Trump warned that Iranian power plants would be targeted if Tehran failed to &#8220;fully open&#8221; the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping within\u00a0 48 hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;We are determined to respond to any threat at the same level as it creates in terms of deterrence.\u00a0If you hit electricity, we hit electricity,&#8221; the Revolutionary Guards said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23093,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-29588","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Iran will retaliate to an attack on its electricity sector by targeting Israel's powerplants as well as power plants supplying United States (US) bases with electricity in regional countries, a statement by the Revolutionary Guards on Monday said","published_date":"2026-03-23 00:00:00","news_description":"Iran will retaliate to an attack on its electricity sector by targeting Israel's powerplants as well as power plants supplying United States (US) bases with electricity in regional countries, a statement by the Revolutionary Guards on Monday said","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29590,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/29588\/revisions\/29590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=29588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}