{"id":24466,"date":"2026-02-28T12:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=24466"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T12:47:04","slug":"iran-leadership-sites-targeted-by-us-and-israel-as-tehran-retaliates-with-strike-across-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/iran-leadership-sites-targeted-by-us-and-israel-as-tehran-retaliates-with-strike-across-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Leadership sites targeted by US and Israel as Tehran retaliates with strike across region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The decision by the United States and Israel to plunge into a new war with Iran creates a highly dangerous moment with unpredictable consequences. Israel used the word &#8220;pre-emptive&#8221; to justify its attack.The evidence is that this is not a response to an imminent threat, which the word pre-emption implies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Instead, it is a war of choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Israel and the United States have calculated that the Islamic regime in Iran is vulnerable; dealing with a severe economic crisis, the fallout from the brutal crackdown on protesters at the start of the year and with defenses still badly damaged by last summer&#8217;s war. Their conclusion seems to have been that this was an opportunity that should not be squandered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It is also another blow to the tottering system of international law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>In their statements, both President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran was a danger to their countries &#8211; Trump said it was a global danger.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Islamic regime is certainly their bitter enemy. But it is hard to see how the legal justification of self-defence applies given the huge disparity of power between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">egretnewseditor@gmail.com\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision by the United States and Israel to plunge into a new war with Iran creates a highly dangerous moment with unpredictable consequences. Israel used the word &#8220;pre-emptive&#8221; to justify its attack.The evidence is that this is not a response to an imminent threat, which the word pre-emption implies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":24467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24468,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24466\/revisions\/24468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}