“You can’t simply say, well, the Iranians are bad and they’ve massacred lots of their population and therefore they should be punished.”
If the US were to bomb Iran, although it may seem like a “strong moral argument”, it isn’t a strong legal one, says director of military sciences at RUSI, Matthew Savill.
Matthew Savill was speaking to Ayesha Hazarika on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday from 1-4pm.
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