Crimes of Aggression Against Iran
By Joshua Shoenfeld
LewRockwell
March 14, 2026
For the second time in under a year, the US and Israel have launched a brutal and unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. This war is illegal under US and international law and is a crime of aggression. Iran has neither initiated a war nor is there any credible evidence that Iran has pursued nuclear weapons, yet the US and Israel are pursuing a war of aggression against Iran.
Unlike Israel, Iran is a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty because Iran opposes developing nuclear weapons on religious grounds. Furthermore, Iran fully complied with the 2015 nuclear deal that ensured that Iran would not obtain a nuclear weapon. However, the nuclear deal was torn up during the 1st Trump administration because the Israel lobby and Israeli regime opposed the nuclear deal.
The US is waging war against Iran because the nominal president, Donald Trump, is a puppet of Miriam Adelson and Israeli Prime Minister (and de-facto US President) Benjamin Netanyahu, who has demanded for years that the US wage war on Iran. Netanyahu has consistently claimed since 1992 that Iran is on the verge of obtaining a nuclear weapon, when Iran has never pursued nuclear weapons.
We should remember that in 2002, Netanyahu also testified before Congress that the war on Iraq would have, “enormous positive reverberations on the region.” The war on Iraq was another brutal and unprovoked war of aggression that had catastrophic consequences for the Middle East, including millions of dead civilians and the rise of Salafist terrorist groups.
So far, the US and Israel have murdered over 1000 Iranian civilians, including about 165 children at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school as a result of the US bombing the school. Bombing schools and murdering children is the modus operandi of the US and Israeli regimes. Tucker Carlson remarked on the school bombing by the US military, “Because if you wake up one morning, and you’re living in the kind of country that thinks it’s okay to kill not simply military officers, but their daughters? That’s not a country that’s worth fighting for.”
Drop Site News quoted the father of a 6-year-old girl murdered in the strike, “I cannot understand how a place where innocent children learn can be bombed like this. We are talking about small children who knew nothing of politics or wars. And yet they are the ones paying the highest price.”
RT reported that Alireza Sanei, Iran’s ambassador to Belarus, alleged that pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was part of a “mystical cult” and that the same forces attacked the school in “some ritual of child sacrifice” to bring success to the US and Israeli regimes.
In addition to murdering children, the US and Israel are destroying Iran’s environment. Iran’s Foreign Ministry asserted that attacks on an oil depot are “intentional chemical warfare” against Iranians. The US and Israel carried out missile attacks on oil depots in the provinces of Tehran and Alborz as part of their strikes on Iran’s infrastructure.
Press TV reported, “By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale.” How many Iranians will die of cancer and other diseases from the toxic substances that are being released into the air by the US and Israel?
The war on Iran and must be immediately stopped and its perpetrators must be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
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