UN rapporteur rejects US justification for Iran war

[0:00]When we look at the last series of US led interventions, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, these were all disasters. Huge numbers of people were killed in those conflicts. It's a recipe for further destabilization, possible insurgency, fragmentation politically within Iran in the region, destabilization of neighbors through refugee flows. Under international law, launching pre-emptive war to prevent another country acquiring a nuclear weapon or some other dangerous weapon is not lawful. We have very clear rules about self-defense. We were a long way from that in Iran. Of course, everybody understands the moral argument that maybe, you know, sometimes there could be a justified case of military intervention to stop, you know, the Rwandan genocide for example, or ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. That's not the reason for this war. This isn't a humanitarian intervention. This is an intervention to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, which it has wanted in significant part because Israel has nuclear weapons.