Trumps attack on Iran - 2026 edition

How will the upcoming attack on Iran go.

  • Total voters
    20
Lirefighter said:
It's only illegal in the fantasy world which you live in whereby international law actually means something in this context.
Click to expand...
Most of the independent world law scholars declared it an illegal attack.

WHAT DOES INTERNATIONAL LAW SAY?​

Legal experts said many countries will consider the attacks unjustified under the United Nations Charter, which states that member states must refrain from using force or the threat of force against other states. There are exceptions when force is authorized by the U.N. Security Council or used in self-defense in response to armed attack, neither of which applies.
Click to expand...
www.reuters.com

Explainer: Are the US attacks on Iran legal?

The U.S. military has joined Israel and attacked more than 1,000 targets in Iran and killed many of its top officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On Wednesday, a U.S. submarine sunk an Iranian navy vessel near Sri Lanka.
www.reuters.com www.reuters.com
I could post many such similar reports, but you'll never bother reading them due to your Confirmation Bias.


Lirefighter said:
Why do you think the US, or Israel would even bother troubling the UN with such a ridiculous notion in the first place? They already know the outcome.
Click to expand...
Because they know that the UN would never sanction an illegal attack against another country.
So they ignored international law, and did it anyway.

Tony Blair refused to join with USA attack on Iraq unless and until they had a UN resolution. Which they gained based on deceitful intel.
Starmer refused to join with Trump and Netanyahu, so they went it alone. And UK were dragged in anyway, because UK had 300 military based in a US Base in Bahrain, who were complicit in the attack.
 
aveatry said:
You have to remember that it has been proven that willy is a foreign agitator on here. You wont get a reply until he wakes up at 2.30am UK time.
Click to expand...
Aveatry is a lying eejit. Not very good one at that. He's incapable of comprehending English.
 
SPLINE said:
International law has flooded Britain and Europe with foreign parasites. Only a foreign parasite or a parasite protector would respect international law.
Click to expand...
International law is not the driver of refugees, armed conflict, supported by western nations selling the weapons creates refugees.
 
warey4life said:
The US seemed to think, in accordance with international law, that they had the right to use force against Iran in response to an imminent threat. The only problem being, there was a no evidence of an imminent threat.
Click to expand...
Iran would have been fully justified in attack Israel and USA with a pre-eminent strike, because evidently Israel and USA were an immediate threat to Iran.
By the same token, any other countries supporting the Israelis or the USA with the use of bases on their soil, or assisting in destroying Iran's defence capabilities were equally culpable.
 
transam said:
The school that was hit was due to ***s poor intel
It was a former rev guard military building
Click to expand...
Schools, a hospital and historic landmarks have been severely damaged since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, satellite images and verified videos show, as the number of reported civilian casualties grows.
BBC Verify has documented damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a Unesco world heritage site and two schools - one of which saw 168 people killed on Saturday morning, according to Iranian officials.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the blast at the school in the southern city of Minab was under investigation and insisted US forces "never target civilian targets".

Verified images also show damage to a separate school building in Urmia, northwestern Iran.

Among the other buildings damaged since strikes began was the Gandhi Hospital in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.

Verified video of the hospital showed extensive damage to the building, with debris and glass falling as civilians watched on.

A spokesperson for Iran's foreign ministry said such attacks were a "blatant war crime", while World Health Organisation chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the incident was "extremely worrying", adding that "health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law."
Click to expand...
www.bbc.co.uk

Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes

A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a "ghost town" as residents flee.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Either their intel is crap, or their precision guided weapons are crap, or they're intentionnaly hitting infrastructure.
transam said:
Similar thing happened in Iraq when a bomb shelter full of civilians was hit
Click to expand...
 
Highway Man said:
The UN is a useless concept nowadays, nobody takes them seriously.
Click to expand...
That's like saying the ECHR is useless when it's the only one available.
It doesn't become usless or redundant until there's something better to replace it.
You might not take courts seriously, but your bound by them, as you've found out when you've been specifically bound by them.
 
B1 Lancer bomber capable of carrying 24 cruise missiles has landed at RAF Fairfield
 
fillyboy said:
Indeed, it means the permanent members can say that 'law' doesn't apply to us, so it isn't really a law is it?
Click to expand...
They can't say that. What they can do is to veto any resolution, but it doesn't prevent the public debate, nor the obvious isolation of that country vetoing the Resolution.

It's very much the same as being tried in absentia. Everyone knows your guilty, you just haven't been punished for it.

And any attacks that were committed on USA soil would be alleged to be terror attacks by USA, when they're just retaliation.
 
morqthana said:
So you make an utterly deranged accusation, and an utterly deranged assertion that he has to acquiesce to your utterly deranged requests to prove he is not what you say, and you claim that the fact that he pushes back against all that is proof that it's all true.

You know what that makes you, don't you.
Click to expand...
We also know. He's a low rate lying eejit with the intelligence of a mouse and the morals of a snake.
 
fillyboy said:
Shall we stop dancing and concede Int'l law is really a load of b******s.
Click to expand...
It does exist, just like the law declaring genocide and denouncing war crimes exist. But while Netanyahu remains in Israel or only ever visits friendly nations that refuse to arrest him under the authority of the ICC warrant, he remains free to commit further crimes.

Evidently the composition of the Security Council and the ability to veto, needs to be reviewed.
 
Esmail Qaani, a top IRGC General is reported to have been executed by Iran, apparently he was a spy for Israel and responsible for the deaths of various senior IRGC officials.

Other reports say he's safe in Israel.
 
King Billy said:
That's like saying the ECHR is useless when it's the only one available.
It doesn't become usless or redundant until there's something better to replace it.
You might not take courts seriously, but your bound by them, as you've found out when you've been specifically bound by them.
Click to expand...
Do you like to always be wrong?
 
King Billy said:
That's like saying the ECHR is useless when it's the only one available.
It doesn't become usless or redundant until there's something better to replace it.
You might not take courts seriously, but your bound by them, as you've found out when you've been specifically bound by them.
Click to expand...
UN bodies, including the General Assembly, lack the power to enforce their decisions. Their resolutions are considered "recommendations" or "soft law"
 
Last edited:
Anonymous bets hours before attacks on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Khamenei have raised concerns of insider trading.

Over the weekend, a Polymarket user known as “Magamyman” reportedly made more than $500,000 in a single day with a bet on US–Israel strikes that Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, would be out of power, raising concerns of insider trading. Mike Levin, a Democratic representative from California, highlighted on the social media platform X that this user bought in on the position when the probability of a strike was at 17 percent and with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

Other users named “Planktonbet,” “Dicedicedice,” and “nothingeverhappens911” also placed bets within 24 hours of the strike on the potential of a US strike, according to data compiled by analytics firm Bubblemap. All accounts were opened in February and exclusively placed bets on Iran.

This echoes past incidents that spooked lawmakers amid concerns of profiteering from war and of potential insider trading.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top