LOADING ERROR LOADINGRoughly twelve hours after he launched a war on Iran early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump said his military campaign had killed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. AdvertisementBut Trump’s effort to frame his war of choice as just and worthy of international celebration is a long shot. And the war represented the second time in less than a year Washington purported to be prioritizing diplomacy with Tehran before choosing war. AdvertisementWaging a bloody, domestically unpopular and unauthorized war without a clear end, the Trump administration is unlikely to attract greater international backing. No international organization or tribunal or coalition of states, whether [the European Union] or any other entity can.”

Source: Huffington Post March 01, 2026 08:14 UTC