Opinion | When Might Trumps Right: The Iran Crisis And Erosion Of Sovereign Norms

The essence of sovereign equality, enshrined in the UN Charter, transcends geopolitical convenience

Let us accept that Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, is an unpopular leader who runs a repressive regime where women, in particular, are subjected to unacceptable institutional subordination and humiliation.

But however unpopular a government may be, does that give outside powers the ordained right to invade it to effect regime change? Indira Gandhi imposed a ruthless dictatorship during the Emergency in 1975-77. But would that give China, for instance, the right to invade India to force a regime change?

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Should countries be allowed to work out their internal problems on their own, or are we legitimising foreign intervention if a third country decides that it will determine what is good for the people of another country? Can change be imported into a nation riding on superior military power, unilaterally undertaken on the doctrine that we are the moral policemen of the globe?

The recent US-Israel military strikes on Iran — undertaken even while diplomatic negotiations were understood to be in progress — starkly highlight these fundamental questions. India’s official response has been measured: expressing........

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