Their actions are no different from Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame\u2019s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo<\/p>\n
We shouldn\u2019t beat around the bush: Donald Trump\u2019s and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful justification for it. It is no different from Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame\u2019s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n
The United Nations charter<\/a> allows the use of military force in only two circumstances \u2013 with authorization of the UN security council, or as self-defense from an actual or imminent armed attack. Neither was present.<\/p>\n Kenneth Roth is a Guardian US columnist, visiting professor at Princeton\u2019s School of Public and International Affairs, and former executive director of Human Rights Watch. He is the author of Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments<\/a><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their actions are no different from Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame\u2019s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo We shouldn\u2019t beat around the bush: Donald Trump\u2019s and Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful justification for it. It is no different from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}