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- Scholars say President Donald Trump's February 2026 war on Iran fails every test of the just-war doctrine.
- Experts argue the conflict lacks a just cause, bypassed the last-resort principle, had no congressional authorization, and a Pentagon probe linked it to a strike on an Iranian elementary school.
- Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump’s “whole civilization will die tonight” rhetoric were condemned as violating just-war proportionality.
