Is the US committing war crimes by targeting Iran’s civilian infrastructure?

International law experts seriously concerned' about strikes on schools, health centres and homes' in contravention of Geneva conventions

Donald Trump, other senior US officials and their cheerleaders appear to be embracing attacks - and threats of attacks - on Iranian civilian infrastructure, which legal experts say appears to constitute serious war crimes under international law.

In his rambling national address on Wednesday, the US president warned that if Iran did not reach an unspecified deal with him, US forces would hit each and every one of their electric-generating plants" and bring [Iran] back to the stone ages - where they belong".