LOADING ERROR LOADINGRoughly twelve hours after he launched a war on Iran early on 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. “Even in America itself, because international law is an important way to protect people in their own countries.”AdvertisementKersten characterised the new war as “unequivocally illegal… a wanton and clear violation” of the United Nations charter. And the war represented the second time in less than a year Washington purported to be prioritising diplomacy with Tehran before choosing war. AdvertisementWaging a bloody, domestically unpopular and unauthorised war without a clear end, the Trump administration is unlikely to attract greater international backing.

Source: Huffington Post March 01, 2026 12:34 UTC