Bundestag report: “Significant doubts” of the legality of the attacks of Israel

In an expert opinion, the scientific services of the Bundestag assert “considerable doubts” to the legality of the Israeli and US attacks on Iran. The “overwhelming number of international lawyers” do not see the criteria for a “self-defense situation” of Israel in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, according to the 54-page expertise, which was commissioned by the left-wing MP Ulrich Thoden and the German press agency is commissioned.

Judgment of international law teaching “almost unanimously”

According to the scientists, Israel should have proven that Iran was about to build a nuclear weapon. “The production of sufficiently splitting material within the framework of the Iranian nuclear program is only a necessary intermediate step,” says the report. In addition, it should have been shown that Iran had the firm intention to use such a weapon against Israel and that the military operation “Rising Lion” was really the last opportunity to prevent the construction of the atomic bomb. All of this did not happen sufficiently according to the almost unanimous judgment of international law.

It was not excluded that secret services still had information that had not yet been communicated publicly and that the facts could still change. “Nevertheless, Israel is now obliged to legally justify his military action against Iran.”

Doubts also on the “justification narrative” of the USA

In the opinion of the scientists, the intervention of the United States would only be covered by international law if the Israeli attacks were in accordance with international law, which there were “considerable doubts”. That is why the US military operation “contrary to the American justification narrative” cannot be relying on the right to collective self-defense, the report says.

The military operation “Rising Lion” started on June 13 was directed against Iranian nuclear facilities and military facilities, but also against high -ranking military and atomic physicists. On June 22, the USA intervened in war with air strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities. A ceasefire came into force three days later.

WARNING FOR THE HOME OF THE HOME OF THE PROFORM

The scientific services of the Bundestag create expertise on behalf of individual MPs or Bundestag bodies to support Parliament’s work. In the current report dated July 3, the authors warn against abusing the right of self -defense to enforce security interests. “Good reasons speak for the existing international law norms (such as the right to defend self -defense), which justify a violation of the ban on violence, not to be strained and overstretched and the ban on violence,” said the expertise.

Federal government has not yet positioned itself

So far, the federal government has not commented on the question of whether the attacks of Israel and the United States on Iran are contrary to international law. Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) has clearly put himself behind the military operations. Shortly after the USA’s entry into the war, he said: “There is no reason for us and for me personally to criticize what Israel started a week ago and no reason to criticize what America did last weekend. It is not without risk. But it was not an option.”

Left politician: slap in the face for black and red

The left-wing politician Thoden sees the thesis of the violations of the attacks by the report. It is therefore “also a slap in the face for the federal government,” he says. “The tolerance until the support of the federal government of the attacks of Israel and the United States was also a break and provides for further eroding of international law.”