Macron: US strikes on Iran aren’t legal

FrenchFrench president Emmanuel Macron said Monday that U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear sites over the weekend violated international law — even though France shares Washington’s aim of preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, reports Politico. 

“There is no legality in these strikes, even if France supports the objective of preventing Iran from getting the nuclear bomb,” he said during a press conference alongside Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Oslo.

While there is “a legitimacy in neutralizing Iran’s nuclear structures,” the French president said, the United States lacked “a legal framework” to do so.