{"id":326431,"date":"2026-04-27T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326431"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:25:03","slug":"u-s-operation-epic-fury-was-launched-at-the-request-of-its-israeli-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=326431","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Operation Epic Fury Was Launched \u201cAt The Request \u2026 of its Israeli Ally\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operation Epic Fury and International Law<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Reed D. Rubinstein, Legal Adviser Office of the Legal Adviser<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 The U.S. Department of State April 21, 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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On February 28, the United States Armed Forces launched Operation Epic Fury<\/a> with a set of clear objectives<\/a>: to \u201c[d]estroy Iranian offensive missiles, destroy Iranian missile production, destroy [Iran\u2019s] navy and other security infrastructure,\u201d and, finally, ensure that Iran \u201cwill never have nuclear weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Epic Fury is only the latest round of an ongoing international armed conflict with Iran. As the United States has explained in multiple letters to the U.N. Security Council, including most recently on March\u00a010<\/a>, the United States is engaged in this conflict at the request of and in the collective self-defense of its Israeli ally,<\/strong><\/span> as well as in the exercise of the United States\u2019 own inherent right of self-defense.<\/h3>\n

Critics have argued that the United States\u2019s combat operations are inconsistent with the UN Charter. In truth, the United States is acting well within the recognized contours of international law relating to the use of force and self-defense. This legal assessment is grounded in facts demonstrating Iran\u2019s malign aggression over decades, particularly in Iran\u2019s escalatory attacks against the United States, Israel, and others in the region for years, which precipitated an international armed conflict that predated U.S. combat operations on February 28 and that continues to this day.<\/p>\n

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    Iran\u2019s Attacks on the United States, Israel, and Others<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Continues in full \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It\u2019s official. The U.S. State Department is now openly admitting that the strike on Iran, which killed the Ayatollah Khamenei and thousands more was launched, among other reasons, BECAUSE ISRAEL ASKED <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326431"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326441,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326431\/revisions\/326441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}