A system that claims to uphold the rule of law yet accepts “ambition” as grounds for war has already collapsed

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Reza Nasri

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In a congressional hearing,

@PeteHegseth

claimed that Iran’s nuclear facilities had been obliterated in June and buried deep underground. Yet the U.S. justification for launching the war was that an Iranian nuclear weapon posed an imminent threat, requiring preemptive self-defense. When pressed on this contradiction, he pivoted: the program had been destroyed, he said, but Iran still retained the “ambition” to build a nuclear weapon! Leaving aside the fact that such an ambition has never been demonstrably established, in what world does a subjective, unprovable, and unfalsifiable notion like “ambition” constitute a credible legal basis for war? Apparently recognizing the weakness of that argument, Hegseth then claimed that Iran had developed conventional military capabilities to “shield” itself while “slow-walking” its way toward a nuclear weapon. This, too, is baseless. Taken to its logical conclusion, his reasoning would mean that any country’s conventional defense capabilities could be reinterpreted as evidence of some alleged “ambition,” and then invoked as justification for military action. A system that claims to uphold the rule of law yet accepts “ambition” as grounds for war has already collapsed

4:58 AM · Apr 30, 2026

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