{"id":449694,"date":"2026-04-07T17:44:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/07\/lue-contro-le-minacce-di-trump-di-attacchi-a-infrastrutture-civili-iraniane-diplomazia-e-la-risposta\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:20:03","slug":"lue-contro-le-minacce-di-trump-di-attacchi-a-infrastrutture-civili-iraniane-diplomazia-e-la-risposta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/lue-contro-le-minacce-di-trump-di-attacchi-a-infrastrutture-civili-iraniane-diplomazia-e-la-risposta\/","title":{"rendered":"EU responds to Trump\u2019s threats of attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure: \u201cDiplomacy is the answer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 The European Commission is seeking to emphasise the importance of diplomacy amid the frequent and intense threats levelled at Iran by US President\u00a0Donald Trump<\/strong>. \u201cWe have always maintained that\u00a0diplomacy is the answer<\/strong>\u00a0and, for our part,\u00a0we reject any threats<\/strong>, including attacks on critical civilian infrastructure,\u201d said the European Commission\u2019s spokesperson for Foreign Affairs,\u00a0Anitta Hipper<\/strong>, during the daily press briefing\u00a0replying to<\/a>\u00a0a question about the intimidation issued by Trump last night (6 April) to blow up every bridge and power station in Iran if the country fails to meet the deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, set for 8 pm US time today, Tuesday 7 April. Not only that. The White House occupant stressed\u00a0that he was “not at all” concerned\u00a0<\/b><\/a>by\u00a0<\/b><\/a>the possibility of committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, as reported by Tehran, and retorted: \u201cDo you know what a war crime is? Possessing a nuclear weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Berlaymont Building rejects Washington\u2019s position: \u201cThese attacks risk affecting millions of people across the Middle East and beyond, and could also lead to a further dangerous escalation.\u201d Therefore, \u201cthe EU calls for the utmost restraint, the protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and full respect by all parties for international law and international humanitarian law<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Brussels\u2019 voice is faint, and this morning in the US, Trump was once again hurling threats\u00a0on his social media platform Truth<\/b><\/a>.\u00a0\u201cAn entire civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back. I don\u2019t want that to happen, but it will probably happen<\/strong>,\u201d he wrote. “However, now that we have a complete and total regime change, where different, smarter, and less radicalised minds prevail, perhaps something wonderful and revolutionary can happen, who knows?” he added. “We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the world. Forty-seven\u00a0years of extortion, corruption and death will finally come to an end. God bless the great Iranian people!” he concluded.<\/p>\n

With just a few hours to go before the deadline and under pressure from the US, negotiations between the two sides are continuing. “The President has set a deadline of around 12 hours from now, US time, and we will find that\u00a0there will be a lot of negotiations between now and then<\/strong>. And I hope we reach a good resolution,” said US Vice-President\u00a0James David Vance<\/strong>\u00a0at a press conference in Budapest, where he is visiting to show support\u00a0for Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s election campaign<\/a>. “The fundamental question is: what will the situation be like afterwards? That is the central point of the negotiations. The President has also been very clear that, while the Iranians are trying to impose the greatest possible economic cost through the Strait of Hormuz, the United States has the capacity to impose economic costs on Iran far greater than those Iran can impose on our friends around the world or us. So I hope they are sensible,” he added.<\/p>\n

Vance claimed that “the United States has largely achieved its military objectives<\/strong>.” Although \u201cthere are still some things we would like to do, for example, regarding Iran\u2019s weapons production capabilities, which we would like to work on a little more from a military perspective, fundamentally, the US military objectives have been completed\u201d and \u201cthis means<\/strong>, as the President said,\u00a0that this war will soon come to an end<\/strong>.\u201d But \u201cthe nature of the conclusion ultimately depends on the Iranians,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n

In this context, the US Vice-President sees two possible paths: the first, in which Tehran \u201cwill no longer fund terrorism, will join the global system of trade and commerce, and this will mean far better things for them economically, and will mean better things for world peace and security\u201d; the second, where \u201cthe Iranians do not sit down at the negotiating table and remain engaged in terrorism, in terrorising their neighbours, not only Israel, but, of course, their Arab neighbours as well.\u201d In this second scenario, \u201cthe economic situation in Iran will continue to be very, very bad and will probably get worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this context, “the president asked his entire team, in particular Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner”\u2014the former a property developer and US Special Envoy for the Middle East, the latter Trump\u2019s brother-in-law\u2014”to work out the details of a potential agreement.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Tehran responded last night to the barrage of threats from Washington. “The crude and arrogant rhetoric, as well as the baseless threats from the unhinged US president<\/strong>, who finds himself in a difficult situation and is trying to justify the US military\u2019s repeated defeats,\u00a0have no effect on the continuation of the offensive and the overwhelming operations<\/strong>” of the Iranian army, said the spokesperson for Khatam Al-Anbiya, the Iranian armed forces command, as quoted by state radio and television.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, according to a Financial Times analysis,\u00a0the war is costing the United States hundreds of millions of dollars a day<\/strong>. Elaine McCusker, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and former senior Pentagon budget official, estimates the\u00a0cost of the campaign against Iran at between $22.3 billion and $31 billion over the five weeks since the attack began<\/strong>. Her calculations include the cost of deploying additional US resources to the Middle East since late December, but do not include a full assessment of the war damage, which will only become clear once hostilities have ended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking from Budapest, Vice-President Vance reassures: “There will be plenty of negotiations between now and the deadline” for the talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7874,"featured_media":449670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[30809,25707],"tags":[33703,33705],"class_list":["post-449694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-security","category-world-politics","tag-anitta-hipper","tag-vance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449696,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449694\/revisions\/449696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}