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Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up international law

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Title
Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up international law
Published by
The Conversation, March 2026
DOI 10.64628/aa.gajf3sru7
Authors

Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, Shannon Brincat

Abstract

With the latest strikes on Iran, The international legal order is now in free-fall.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 467. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 October 2026.
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#74,373
of 34,601,289 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#5,403
of 214,320 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#651
of 358,178 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#54
of 5,522 outputs
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