The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Necessity of Legal Measures within the Framework of Self-Defense
Document Type : Original Article
Author
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Islamic Sciences, Islamic Revolution University, Tehran, I.R.Iran
Abstract
After the Al-Aqsa Storm, the occupying regime did not only focus on terrorizing and killing people and resistance forces, but also assassinated Palestinian and Lebanese resistance leaders and Iranian military commanders who were outside the occupied territories and Gaza. The most important of these were the assassination of martyr Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and martyr Abbas Nilforoshan alongside Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, the attack on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus, and the martyrdom of a group of Iranian military commanders in Syria by violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a third country and carrying out assassination operations. The main question of the research is: according to which rules of international law can the Islamic Republic of Iran resort to legal measures in this regard? This article, using a descriptive-analytical method, has found that the criminal and terrorist actions of the Zionist regime are an example of the policy of terror and violation of the right to life included in the framework of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention (prohibition of any extrajudicial killing as a widespread violation of human and humanitarian rights). In this regard, Iran's action in launching widespread missile attacks on the occupying regime and targeting the Navatim military base on the evening of Tuesday, October 10, 1403, in an act of legitimate defense against the occupation regime's aggression against Iran's territory or interests and sovereignty and the assassination of Iranian military commanders in other countries, including Syria and Lebanon, and the martyrdom of Ismail Haniyeh, is considered an appropriate and necessary response according to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.
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