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Is the Iran war illegal? How do you justify a preventive strike? And what is the problem of humanitarian interventions? The international law professor Anne Peters in an interview.
International Law Won’t Save Us in the Iran War
The war against Iran has already taken several forms, and it is a month old. The war was announced via Truth Social, without a public address to Congress, and was initially justified as a response to an imminent threat. That framing gave way to a broader invocation of nuclear danger, which gave way in turn to Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s more candid account: The US had entered the war partly because Israel was committed to striking Iran rega…
When the US and Israel attack Iran, they are violating international law. When the Swedish Prime Minister says that the legitimacy of the attacks should be judged based on their results, he is contributing to a development where international rules are made conditional, which is what we ourselves have the most to lose. This is what Beatrice Fihn, international law lawyer and head of the Lex International foundation, writes.
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