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Friday, February 2, 2007
Iran Threats: Evidence and Legality
MARJORIE COHN, libertad48@san.rr.com,
http://counterpunch.org/cohn02012007.html
Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Her most
recent piece is "Cruise Missile Diplomacy: Bush Targets Iran," which
states: "Bush is rattling the sabers and opting for gunboat diplomacy by
pledging to 'seek out and destroy' Iranian networks 'providing advanced
weaponry and training to our enemies' in Iraq. But he has produced no
hard evidence that Iran is supplying forces in Iraq with such weapons or
manufacturing their own nuclear weapons."
Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild, and U.S.
representative to the executive committee of the American Association of
Jurists. Her book "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied
the Law" will be published in June.
She was among the signers of a recent letter from legal
organizations around the world: "Offensive military action against Iran
would be illegal, as the United States is bound under the United Nations
Charter to settle international disputes by peaceful means and to
refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity of any state or act in any other manner inconsistent with the
purpose of the United Nations." See:
http://nlg.org/news/statements/Military_Iran_2007.htm
ROBERT NAIMAN, naiman@justforeignpolicy.org,
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070201/cm_huffpost/040120
National coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, Naiman said today:
"There are four questions that should be put to the Bush administration
about its claims that the Iranian government is behind attacks on U.S.
troops in Iraq. If this activity is so substantial, why can't you
provide any direct evidence for this claim? Given that the overwhelming
majority of attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq are from Sunni insurgents who
seem to hate the Shiite Iranian government and Iraqi Shiites at least as
much as they hate the U.S. government, why would the Iranian government
want to arm them? Is it 'meddling' if the Iranian government gives
advice to the Iraqi government, or tries to strengthen its diplomatic
and economic ties with Iraq, and if so, shouldn't such 'meddling' be
distinguished from giving assistance to attacks on U.S. troops? And
finally, do you believe that you have the authority to attack Iran
without congressional authorization?"
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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Friday, February 2, 2007
Iran Threats: Evidence and Legality
MARJORIE COHN, libertad48@san.rr.com,
http://counterpunch.org/cohn02012007.html
Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. Her most
recent piece is "Cruise Missile Diplomacy: Bush Targets Iran," which
states: "Bush is rattling the sabers and opting for gunboat diplomacy by
pledging to 'seek out and destroy' Iranian networks 'providing advanced
weaponry and training to our enemies' in Iraq. But he has produced no
hard evidence that Iran is supplying forces in Iraq with such weapons or
manufacturing their own nuclear weapons."
Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild, and U.S.
representative to the executive committee of the American Association of
Jurists. Her book "Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied
the Law" will be published in June.
She was among the signers of a recent letter from legal
organizations around the world: "Offensive military action against Iran
would be illegal, as the United States is bound under the United Nations
Charter to settle international disputes by peaceful means and to
refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial
integrity of any state or act in any other manner inconsistent with the
purpose of the United Nations." See:
http://nlg.org/news/statements/Military_Iran_2007.htm
ROBERT NAIMAN, naiman@justforeignpolicy.org,
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20070201/cm_huffpost/040120
National coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, Naiman said today:
"There are four questions that should be put to the Bush administration
about its claims that the Iranian government is behind attacks on U.S.
troops in Iraq. If this activity is so substantial, why can't you
provide any direct evidence for this claim? Given that the overwhelming
majority of attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq are from Sunni insurgents who
seem to hate the Shiite Iranian government and Iraqi Shiites at least as
much as they hate the U.S. government, why would the Iranian government
want to arm them? Is it 'meddling' if the Iranian government gives
advice to the Iraqi government, or tries to strengthen its diplomatic
and economic ties with Iraq, and if so, shouldn't such 'meddling' be
distinguished from giving assistance to attacks on U.S. troops? And
finally, do you believe that you have the authority to attack Iran
without congressional authorization?"
For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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