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How about Thomas Gibbons-Neff, John Ismay, and Reed Brody, to start with.
Intentionally targeting the country’s energy infrastructure could constitute a war crime under international law.
Tehran in 2024. President Trump threatened over the weekend to attack Iran’s power plants.Credit...Atta Kenare/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and John Ismay
March 24, 2026
Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations Security Council, making President Donald Trump’s attack illegal under both domestic and international law, says veteran war crimes prosecutor...
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Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
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The United States and Israel launched a devastating war against Iran on Saturday without approval by the U.S. Congress or support from the United Nations Security Council, making President Donald Trump’s attack illegal under both domestic and international law, says veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.“The U.N. Charter is not ambiguous,” says Brody. “President Trump has presumptively committed … the international crime of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and just as Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine.”
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman.
The United States and Israel are facing global condemnation for launching unilateral attacks on Iran without seeking approval of the U.N. Security Council.
We go now to France, where we’re joined by Reed Brody, longtime war crimes prosecutor, member of the International Commission of Jurists, author of To Catch a Dictator.
Reed, if you can respond to what has taken place, the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, and then Iran retaliating by sending missiles and drones throughout the Gulf and against Israel?
REED BRODY: Sure, Amy. I mean, look, whatever you think of the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, these attacks by the U.S. and Israel are a clear violation of the foundational principle of the postwar legal order, which is the nonuse of force. So, the U.N. Charter is not ambiguous. Article 2, Section 4 prohibits the use of force against the territorial integrity or the political independence of any state. And there are only two exceptions: one, if the Security Council authorizes it, which obviously nobody saw here, or self-defense. And that means self-defense in response to an actual or an imminent armed attack. And here, there was no — it’s obvious there was no such imminent attack. President Trump even said last year that he had obliterated Iran’s nuclear capacity. As you’ve reported, both sides had just concluded the most intensive round of nuclear talks. So there was no immediate threat here. And so, President Trump has presumptively committed the crime, the international crime, of aggression, as he did in Venezuela and as — and just as Vladimir Putin did in Ukraine. And at the Nuremberg trials, the supreme international crime was considered to be aggression, crimes against peace.
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