DEAR News of the Area,
All wars are tragic, inevitably causing unnecessary death, destruction, chaos and misery, at great financial and social cost.
Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter prohibits war, calling for member states to: “refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”
Therefore, the current US-Israeli war on Iran appears to be illegal under the UN Charter: an important international law.
Iran was not attacking Israel or America, and there was no imminent threat from Iran.
The US-Israeli air strikes derailed ongoing peace negotiations with Iran, which were making “significant progress” as Oman’s Foreign Minister, Badr al-Busaidi, declared on X on 27 February 2026.
Furthermore, in March 2025, the U.S. Annual Threat Assessment (p.25) said, “We continue to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei has not reauthorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003″.
Why is the Australian Government supporting this illegal, pointless and destructive war on Iran? Regards,
Kenneth HIGGS,
Raymond Terrace.
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