Threatening Iran and its negotiators is not merely a political miscalculation of the first order. It is a naked violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter,

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Reza Nasri

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Threatening Iran and its negotiators is not merely a political miscalculation of the first order. It is a naked violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, which prohibits the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. The prohibition on "threats" of force is not incidental to the Charter's architecture; it is foundational. A threat does not need to precede military action to constitute a breach of international law. The threat itself is the violation. Beyond the legal dimension, the political signal such conduct sends is deeply corrosive. It reinstates to Tehran that the Trump administration either does not regard itself as bound by international law, or - more troublingly - that it views legal constraints as selectively applicable: binding on Iran, optional for itself. This matters enormously for the implementation phase. If the United States signals, even before ink is dry, that it is prepared to operate outside the confines of international law when the president sees fit, Iran would be entirely rational to conclude that compliance on its part would be met not with reciprocity, but with escalating pressure and bad faith. In that environment, no agreement can hold. You cannot negotiate a legal settlement with a party that has already announced, implicitly or explicitly, that rules do not apply to it.

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