Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Even if Iran were building a nuclear arsenal right now (it isn’t), the U.S. would have no right to attack them. The prohibition against the use of force has only one exception, and waging a preventive war against Iran has nothing to do with self-defense. If the U.S. chose to attack Iran, it would be doing so because it wanted to and because it had no respect for international law. It would be the act of a rogue aggressor. One of the biggest lies that interventionists like to tell is that the U.S. has been forced into taking military action. They will always insist that they don’t want war, but that the other state has ‘forced’ the most powerful country in the world to attack anyway.” (01/06/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/attacking-iran-would-be-wrong-and-f47