... some states have the right to develop nuclear weapons and use force only because they consider themselves civilized, whereas others are condemned to bear the label of rogue states and terrorist accomplices. In this sense, they have damaged not only Iran’s nuclear program, but also international law by undermining confidence in the latter's effectiveness by distorting one of its basic institutions—the right to self-defense.
Reference list
1. Гроций Г. Право войны и мира. М.: Ладомир, 1994. / Grotius ...
... serious underestimation by the US of the positions of the main players with respect to the Iranian dossier. This is especially true of the US Representative to the UN Kelly Craft, who called in June on Russia and China "
to join a global consensus on Iran's conduct
".
It turns out that it was the United States that undermined international law and ensured isolation for itself.
The main reason for the current crisis is that the United States
withdrew from the JCPOA
in May 2018, thereby depriving itself of the rights and opportunities to use the mechanisms provided for by the ...
... with force when tensions between the United States and Iran escalated after the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force shot down a U.S. drone. Instead,
according to media reports
, the United States Cyber Command carried out a cyberattack against Iranian units that were allegedly involved in the
attacks
on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman the previous week, even though the United States provided no evidence to support its claim.
Cyberattacks and International Law
Anastasia Tolstukhina:
Two Cyber Resolutions Are Better Than None
The legitimacy of the attack, like many others, is questionable. Similarly, international legal proceedings have yet to be launched against the United States in connection ...
