Trump says the war could last weeks or \u2018far longer\u2019. Plus, what a high schooler detained by ICE for 10 months wants you to know<\/p>\n
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Iranian drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh as Tehran continued to launch waves of retaliatory strikes<\/a> at the Gulf and Israel, while Israeli soldiers began operating in southern Lebanon on the fourth day of an increasingly regional war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n What is the legality of the attacks on Iran?<\/strong> The Guardian spoke to legal experts, who were in consensus that the initial strikes were unlawful<\/a> under international law. \u201cThere doesn\u2019t seem to be any evidence of an imminent threat by Iran,\u201d said Susan Breau, a professor of international law and a senior associate research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. The US constitution also enshrines the power to formally declare war exclusively to Congress, but the president did not seek congressional approval beforehand.<\/p>\n What has the US said about the war\u2019s justification?<\/strong> It keeps shifting. Donald Trump initially said there were \u201cimminent threats\u201d to Americans, and that the US wanted to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, as well as urging Iranians to rise up and topple the regime. Then Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, said on Monday<\/a> that Israel\u2019s determination to attack Iran \u2013 and the certainty that US troops would be targeted in response \u2013 had forced the Trump administration to take pre-emptive strikes.<\/p>\n Are European countries joining?<\/strong> Spain denied the US<\/a> permission to use jointly operated military bases on its territory for its \u201cunjustified\u201d assault on Iran, while Trump criticized the UK<\/a> for taking \u201cfar too long\u201d to approve American use of its airbases.<\/p>\n What are the implications of disrupting the strait of Hormuz<\/strong>?<\/strong> The strait, which Iran controls, is a key global shipping route, with a fifth of global seaborne oil passing through it. It is now effectively closed and the price of oil has jumped, triggering fears of a new wave of global cost-of-living pressures<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a developing story.<\/strong> Follow our live coverage here<\/a>, and see the war in maps, video and photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump says the war could last weeks or \u2018far longer\u2019. Plus, what a high schooler detained by ICE for 10 months wants you to know Good morning. Iranian drones hit the US embassy in Riyadh as Tehran continued to launch waves of retaliatory strikes at the Gulf and Israel, while Israeli soldiers began operating in … 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-67872","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\/67872","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=67872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}