In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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In this strategy, attacks on water, electricity, food access, and transport are meant to make civilians angry and channel that anger against their own government.
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"...infrastructure. Basically, I want to destroy people's capacity to access water, electricity, and food, the basic necessities of life. Okay? Why do I want..."
"as the economy right so the most most basic thing is water okay look guys these are all dams and reservoirs around iran okay..."
"population power plants okay these are all power plants around uh iran and it's really easy to destroy these power plants all right so..."
"Water and electricity. Okay? And financing. They cost a lot. They waste a lot of water. They waste a lot of electricity. And, it's..."
"...Tehran is you deny them three things. You deny them water, electricity, and food. Okay. So you attack power plants. You attack reservoirs. You..."
"...want to knock out Tehran's capacity to provide food, water, and electricity to its people. But from the Caspian Sea, the Russians can support..."
"...GCC collapses, then it loses its petrol dollar, it loses its electricity, it loses millions of dollars in investment. And we could see a..."
"...you have a chinese corporation build your nuclear power plant your electricity is going to cost about 20 cents on the dollar compared to..."
"...couple of billion dollars whatever that plant costs and once the electricity is delivered to the Iranian people in businesses they have to pay..."
"You destroy power plants to deny them electricity. Okay. What you're trying to do in this process, you're trying to work slowly so you..."
"...do that by limiting their capacity to access food, water, and electricity. You basically bomb power plants, you bomb reservoirs, and you bomb railways...."
"...-use, right? Because the military also uses water. They also use electricity. Their kids also go to university. So there's a great fear now..."
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