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The Owen Jones Podcast

US & Israel Launch ILLEGAL War on Iran

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

The US and Israel have launched an illegal war of aggression against Iran and have already

0:05.6

slaughtered countless civilians destroying whatever remains of the so-called international order.

0:12.2

To be clear here, there is no possible legal basis or justification for this unprovoked attack

0:18.0

on Iran. These are the facts. It's not hyperbole. It's not spin. It's not rhetoric.

0:23.6

It is a fact. Under international law, you cannot launch a war on another nation claiming that

0:29.7

otherwise at some point in the future, they will pose a threat to you. There is no basis to argue

0:35.4

that this is self-defense. This is illegal. Under US law, as per the US

0:41.3

constitution, there's been no congressional approval. What exactly is the pretext? Last year,

0:47.3

Donald Trump declared that Israel's nuclear program had been obliterated. What exactly is the

0:52.5

strategy? Overthrowing a regime with air strikes and then replacing it with what?

0:57.0

Some functioning alternative?

0:59.0

Never happened before.

1:01.0

The Israeli Prime Minister claims that the Iranian Supreme Leader Hameh has been killed by one of these attacks.

1:08.0

We'll come on to the implications of that.

1:10.0

What we can conclude is that this war is a great crime,

1:13.4

one legitimized by other Western leaders.

1:16.3

These are the same Western states which facilitated Israel's genocide

1:19.6

against the Palestinian people and cheerled the kidnapping of Venezuelan leader

1:23.9

Nicolas Majuro.

1:25.8

All of this accelerates the world's collapse into violent mayhem.

1:30.1

These are the morbid and gruesome symptoms of a declining West. It's also a war of aggression

1:36.6

which the Western media are, as ever justifying, and whitewashing, and indeed, erasing the actual

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