Details of Ukraine’s attack on shipping in the Caspian Sea over the weekend are still not clear. However, the Iranian reaction suggests that the attac...

With the US blockade on Iranian shipping and ports in force along the whole of the southern Iranian coastline, and the railway link to China through the border crossing point with Turkmenistan at Inche-Buren damaged, the route across the Caspian has become the only cargo route for heavy traffic which remains under Iranian sovereign control.

  • Krono@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    Well the interesting thing about international law is that it is nuanced, you don’t have to pick one.

    Targeting noncombat civilians employed in the arms trade of a country you aren’t belligerent with? That’s a war crime not only according to me, but also the UN.

    Would you consider it a war crime if an Iranian missile targeted a Ukrainian munitions factory, killing the workers there? I would.