Will bombing Iran back to the ‘stone ages’ achieve any war objectives?

Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s bridges and power plants follows a similar playbook to recent conflicts

During Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli jets bombed the Jiyeh power station north of the coastal city of Sidon. The blaze could be seen for miles, a towering column of black smoke. Sand was turned to glass.

The plant’s damaged storage tanks leaked an estimated 15,000 tonnes of oil into the eastern Mediterranean, the largest spill in that sea.