Do you think it's OK for Nations to break international law?

[ardwyad]

Any invasion of Iran would be a violation of international law!

Even if Iran was in the process of developing nuclear weapons.

The United Nations Charter also outlaws the ‘threat of the use of force’!

So,...it is ILLEGAL.

It is AGAINST INTERNATIONAL LAW!

The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph failed to make even one reference to the illegality of a war on Iran in their news sections over the past six months while the BBC only mentioned the issue once in the period in an article name “How would Iran respond to an Israeli attack?”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17261265

There is no basis in international law for preventative, rather than pre-emptive, war.

[gillivray5]

If your next door neighbor doesn't like you and threatens to shoot fire arrows at your home and has lit a fire and emplaced a supply of arrows and has notched one on his bow...... what are you going to do? Remember ,now, you have to defer to international law.

[chadburne48]

International "law" does not take precedence over US law. Our laws are based on the Constitution, and no treaty or international agreement can override that. That includes the WTO, Agenda 21, Law of the Seas Treaty (LOST), Small Arms Treaty, etc.
It is the globalists among us who have convinced the majority of Americans that we answer to the unelected, unAmerican "diplomats" at the UN. We need to tell the UN to take a hike out of our country and stop supporting them with our tax dollars. Do you realize that the UN Human Rights Commission is actually investigating US voter laws, and that countries like Saudi Arabia are judging us?

[kyledyr]

An invasion of Iran is not automatically illegal - it depends on the circumstances. After all, Iran has also threatened use of force.

International law does not, and never has, stood for much. It is broken by practically every country on Earth on almost a daily basis. For example, imposing trade barriers/tariffs is technically illegal under international law, but every country does it. This should stop - there's no point having a law if you're going to break it all the time, but I think at the same time there are instances when it is right to bypass international law. For example, there are plenty of examples during WW1 and 2 where international law was broken, but if it hadn't been, we may all be speaking German.

[alleyne]

An invasion of Iran is not automatically illegal - it depends on the circumstances. After all, Iran has also threatened use of force.

International law does not, and never has, stood for much. It is broken by practically every country on Earth on almost a daily basis. For example, imposing trade barriers/tariffs is technically illegal under international law, but every country does it. This should stop - there's no point having a law if you're going to break it all the time, but I think at the same time there are instances when it is right to bypass international law. For example, there are plenty of examples during WW1 and 2 where international law was broken, but if it hadn't been, we may all be speaking German.

You might want to read the UN Charter and in particular articles 39 through to 43.

So the UN Security Council can choose to authorise an attack on Iran. Individual countries are also allowed to defend themselves (we don't want the events of the Sudetenland again) in advance of any threatened attack. An Iran has threatened to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth which can only be achieved by nuclear war.

Personally I don't think we need to go to war. Israel and its allies just have to advise Iranian citizens that we are fully supportive of their governments policy of peaceful development of nuclear power. However, the minute it explodes a single nuclear weapon whether as a test or for real, it will be hit with say 5 intercontinental nuclear missiles on Iran's largest cities within 1 hour of the Iranian explosion. That should be enough to encourage non-proliferation and encourage voter power in Iran.

[egann]

Israel is breaking the international law contentiously, and USA always uses vito in UN security council to stop even condemn it's actions, not dreaming about something more effective like sanctions, and no one says a word about it. THE UN SUCKS!
The international law is f@cked up, who cares?