{"id":55180,"date":"2026-03-05T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55180"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:13:40","slug":"us-israeli-strikes-on-iran-in-breach-of-international-law-says-italian-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55180","title":{"rendered":"US-Israeli strikes on Iran in breach of international law, says Italian minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reuters:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ROME, March 5  &#8211; The U.S.-Israeli\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/iran-launches-wave-missiles-israel-us-republicans-block-measure-halt-us-air-2026-03-05\/\">attacks on Iran<\/a>\u00a0which sparked the latest Middle East crisis were \u200bclearly in breach of international law, Italian \u200cDefence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the strongest criticism to date from Italy&#8217;s right-wing administration, \u200bwhich has sought to establish close \u200bties with U.S. President Donald Trump since \u2060he took office last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to \u200blaunch the strikes last weekend &#8220;of course fell outside, \u200bneedless to say, the rules of international law&#8221;, Crosetto told the lower house of parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said Italy \u200bwas being forced to respond to a \u200bconflict that the United States and Israel had initiated without \u200cwarning \u2060their allies and partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is a war that was started without anyone in the world knowing. One in which we, like the \u200brest of \u200bthe world, \u2060find ourselves having to manage (the consequences),&#8221; said Crosetto, who is a \u200bmember of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni&#8217;s \u200bBrothers \u2060of Italy party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Italy has said it will send air defence aid to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/italy-plans-send-air-defence-aid-gulf-states-after-iranian-strikes-meloni-says-2026-03-05\/\">Gulf countries and naval assets \u2060to \u200bCyprus<\/a>&nbsp;to help them \u200bprotect against Iranian strikes launched in response to the U.S.-Israeli \u200battacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: ROME, March 5 &#8211; The U.S.-Israeli\u00a0attacks on Iran\u00a0which sparked the latest Middle East crisis were \u200bclearly in breach of international law, Italian \u200cDefence Minister Guido Crosetto said on Thursday. It was the strongest criticism to date from Italy&#8217;s right-wing administration, \u200bwhich has sought to establish close \u200bties with U.S. President Donald Trump since \u2060he took office last year. The decision to \u200blaunch the strikes last weekend &#8220;of course fell outside, \u200bneedless to say, the rules of international law&#8221;, Crosetto told the lower house of parliament. He said Italy \u200bwas being forced to respond to a \u200bconflict that the United&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55182,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55180\/revisions\/55182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}