(JNS) The Iran of the ayatollahs has long been dangerous—and ready for war. If the world wished to prevent it from attacking its enemies with lethal weapons, including potentially nuclear ones, then action to stop it was not only justified but necessary.
International law does not forbid self-defense. Yet in practice, it often condemns the act of preventing an enemy’s aggression, even when the threat is clear and events are already in motion.
When actors such as the United States and Israel take steps to stop such a threat, the institutions that claim to safeguard international law—first and foremost the United Nations—frequently declare them outside the bounds of that very law.
This approach is not only dishonest. It is self-defeating.
The danger posed by Iran has been clear and present for decades. Ignoring it would have been an invitation to catastrophe—potentially even nuclear aggression. Tehran’s ambitions were not hidden. They were developed methodically over the years and accompanied by constant acts of war carried out directly and through proxies.
Yet in much of the...
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