American military vehicles at the Tanf base in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border (File)
I joined The Pat Kenny Show on Dublin NewsTalk on Friday to explain why the US carried out airstrikes on two Iranian targets in northeast Syria, and whether Iran’s regime — with its proxy militias in Syria and Iraq attacking American personnel — will observe the line drawn by the strikes.
Scott Lucas is Professor of International Politics at the Clinton Institute, University College Dublin; Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Birmingham; and editor-in-chief of EA WorldView.
He is a specialist in US and British foreign policy and international relations, especially the Middle East and Iran. Formerly he worked as a journalist in the US, writing for newspapers including the Guardian and The Independent and was an essayist for The New Statesman before he founded EA WorldView in November 2008.
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varharan
on October 28, 2023 at 02:25
[Editor’s Note: The American military presence in eastern Syria was authorized by Congress as part of the effort against the Islamic State — similar to the American and Iranian military presence in Iraq.
There is no clear international law *against* the rationale for that intervention, although it is debated by legal scholars.]
Let us remind ourselves that the American military presence in eastern Syria has not been approved by Congress and certainly not by the United Nations or international law.
[Editor’s Note: The American military presence in eastern Syria was authorized by Congress as part of the effort against the Islamic State — similar to the American and Iranian military presence in Iraq.
There is no clear international law *against* the rationale for that intervention, although it is debated by legal scholars.]
Let us remind ourselves that the American military presence in eastern Syria has not been approved by Congress and certainly not by the United Nations or international law.