Mark Kelly: 'Illegal orders' to make civilians suffer in Iran would be 'black mark' on military, US [View all]

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) hit back at a recent post from President Trump threatening Iranian infrastructure, saying Monday that “threatening to target power plants and other non-military targets is not strength.”

“If those words become orders to destroy civilian infrastructure with no valid military purpose, it’s hard to see how they would not violate the laws of armed conflict. America leads best with strength, discipline, and professionalism. Illegal orders to make civilians suffer would be a black mark on our military and our country,” Kelly, a retired Navy captain, added in his post on the social platform X.

Kelly’s post came in response to a Truth Social post from Trump on Sunday in which he pressed Tehran to “open the F‑‑‑in’ Strait, you crazy bastards.”

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Kelly late last year became entangled in a fight with the Trump administration over a video in which he and five other Democratic lawmakers told military service members not to go along with “illegal orders.”

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