India, March 23 -- Iran has issued a threat to strike power plants and water stations across the Middle East if US President Donald Trump goes ahead with his ultimatum of hitting Tehran's power infrastructure at the end of his self-imposed deadline for opening the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump had said in a social media post that if Tehran didn't open the strategic waterway to all ships, the United States would "obliterate" Iran's power plants.

Iran's paramilitary Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that if the US did that, Iran would respond by hitting power plants in all areas that supply electricity to American bases, "as well as the economic, industrial and energy infrastructures in which Americans have shares."

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