TEL AVIV – The US-Israeli war on Iran flagrantly violates international law. But so has nearly every other war since the adoption in 1945 of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the use of force except in self-defense or, as in the cases of the Korean War (1950-53) and the First Gulf War (1990-91), with Security Council authorization. Where the current Iran war stands out is not in its illegality, but rather in its lack of any clear or achievable objective.

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