EA on Pat Kenny Show: Why US Struck Iranian Targets in NE Syria
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Scott Lucas
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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[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.