International law or ‘might is right’? Australia’s choice on Iran and other conflicts
- Written by Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law, Australian National University
The Iranian diaspora has been celebrating and governments around the world have generally not mourned the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in last weekend’s US and Israeli air strikes on Iran.
While there has been much political justification for these attacks from Washington and Jerusalem, neither has sought to legally justify their conduct....
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