
How the aggression against Iran has been normalised
To understand the latest justifications for Israeli and US strikes on Iran, one must look to Iraq and Syria. It was there, in 2003 and during the war against the group Islamic State in 2014, that a similar legal playbook was written, one that normalised unilateral intervention and forged the permissive environment for the crime of aggression we are witnessing today, explains Alannah Travers.