COMMENT | A broad consensus of international law scholars maintains that there are compelling grounds to classify the illegal attacks by the United States and Israel against Iran as a crime of aggression.

The joint military operations against Iran represent an undeniable erosion of the global legal order. Far from being a lawful act of preemption, these strikes are being characterised by scholars as a manifest violation of international law.

International law is not a mere suggestion. It is a binding architecture of treaties and universally accepted rules.

The joint strikes on Iran fall squarely...