Many Swedish politicians are very worried about the mullah regime being overthrown, because they have made many agreements with the ayatollahs in Iran and they feel completely depressed when the outside world talks about regime change in Iran.

 

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Expert: US violates international law – risks backlash against the West

Updated June 27, 2025Published June 26, 2025

Several international law experts say that the US attack on Iran violates international law.

Mark Klamberg, professor of international law at Stockholm University, says that the position of international law in the world seems to have reached a new low point.

– It risks backlash against us in the West, he says.

Mark Klamberg, professor of international law at Stockholm University, believes that the position of international law has been weakened by the US attack on Iran. According to Klamberg, the White House has not complied with the rules of international law for when force may be used against another country. That is, in self-defense or with approval from the UN Security Council.

– What we see now is that they do not comply with the rules – and they do not try to, he says.

He says that the principles of international law were already under heavy attack, not least after Russia's annexation of Ukrainian Crimea and then the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The US war in Iraq starting in 2003 also weakened the position of international law, according to Klamberg.

- People have previously spoken about the crisis of international law, but I think it is only getting worse, he says.

In addition to Russia and the US, several international law experts that SVT spoke to say that Israel's warfare is disproportionate, even though the country initially had the right to defend itself after the Hamas terrorist attack in 2023.

Israel's and US arguments are similar to Russia's

Klamberg to some extent compares Israel's and thus the US's arguments for carrying out the attack on Iran to Russia's arguments for the war in Ukraine. Both governments talk about future and partly vague threats from the countries they have attacked. He is therefore critical of the fact that the outside world, not least the EU, has not directed sharper criticism at the US airstrikes.

– One must remember that these arguments and this type of self-defense, which some think are appropriate in relation to Iran, can later be used against us in the West, he says.

Has it ever been this bad?

– I think in this period after 1945, we are heading towards some kind of low water mark.

The principles of international law that apply today came into being after the end of World War II in 1945.

“International law will survive”

Other experts in the field are also pessimistic – albeit to a lesser extent than Klamberg.

Ove Bring, professor emeritus of international law, believes that the system will survive regionally, not least in the EU. But that the application of its principles is under heavy attack in parts of the world.

Mark Klamberg believes that the world order and respect for the UN Charter are seriously damaged.

– It is not just the US and Israel that care less. The public and the media also seem to care less, and that matters.

International law and humanitarian law

International law includes several areas, including human rights. Rules of war fall under the part of international law that is usually called humanitarian law.

The rules apply to states and other armed groups that participate in an armed conflict, even if the party has not signed the Geneva Convention.

Sources: Médecins Sans Frontières, Red Cross

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