Iranian Minister Calls for Human Chains Around Power Plants

People drive their motorbikes past a billboard that shows a graphic depicting Iranian leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei in downtown Tehran, Iran, on April 6, 2026. Vahid Salemi/AP PhotoAn Iranian minister has called for citizens, including students, to make human chains around power plants, after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iranian infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully reopened by his April 7 deadline.Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, called on “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form the human chains.