Defending Israel against Iranian Nuclear Aggression: War, Genocide, and International Law

by Louis René Beres (August 2015)

Under authoritative international law, aggressive war and genocide need not be mutually exclusive. On the contrary, war can intentionally create the conditions that would make genocide possible; it can also be the more direct or immediate instrument of closely related crimes against humanity. It follows then, as Iran comes ever closer to achieving a viable nuclear weapons capability,¹ that Israel has an especially good reason to fear future conflicts with such an aggression-prone Islamic republic.  more>>>