'What would be left of international legal order': Araghchi on US strikes

"If states were free to attack one another based on their own assessments of possible future threats, what would be left of the international legal order?" Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has asked in an opinion piece for Japan's Kyodo News.

"This question," Araghchi wrote, "goes well beyond the political dispute between Iran and the United States."

"It concerns one of the fundamental principles on which the international order established after the Second World War rests: the use of force is governed by law, and no state, however powerful, is entitled to place its own judgment above binding rules of international law," the article read.