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American Prestige

Special - International Law and the War on Iran w/ Maryam Jamshidi

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

News, History, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Subscribe now to get all of our breaking news specials. Derek welcomes back legal scholar Maryam Jamshidi to discuss the legal aspect of the U.S.–Israel war on Iran. They talk about the administration’s shifting legal justifications, why the administration’s claims about Iranian threats and nuclear weapons fail under international law, the legal limits of self-defense, how the conflict fits within the laws of war, and the broader humanitarian and political consequences of the war for Iranian civilians and the country’s future.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.9

Hello American prestige listeners. It's Derek, and I am pleased to welcome back to the program, maybe not under the circumstances,

0:48.5

but just to have her here.

0:49.5

Maryam, Jim Sheet, she is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.

0:54.0

She specializes

0:54.6

in international law, foreign policy, law, national security law. She's been on the program before

0:59.8

she is our NATSEC legal desk, I suppose, on American prestige. So Miriam, thank you so much

1:07.8

for coming back on the program. Thank you for having me, albeit under these unfortunate circumstances.

1:13.9

I'm still glad to be here, though.

1:15.9

Yes, I want to talk about the unfortunate circumstances.

1:19.8

But before we do that, let's discuss the strictly legal aspects or illegal aspects, as the case may be, of the

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