NUPL denounces unlawful US aggression against Iran
The NUPL stands in solidarity with the peoples of Iran and all those committed to genuine peace grounded in sovereignty, human rights, and international law. The world cannot afford yet another war invoked in the name of security, but in truth serving imperial interests.
June 24, 2025
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The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers is a nationwide voluntary association of human rights lawyers in the Philippines, committed to the defense, protection, and promotion of human rights, especially of the poor and the oppressed.

The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) condemns in the strongest terms the United States’ recent bombing of Iran, an act that flagrantly violates both international law and the fundamental principles of global peace and sovereignty.

The Charter of the United Nations, to which the United States is a signatory, is unambiguous in its prohibition of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state. The only exceptions permitted under international law are use of force by the Security Council in case of a “threat to peace, breach of peace and act of aggression,” and the right to use force in individual or collective self-defense. The present US military action against Iran meets neither criterion. It is a naked act of aggression, executed unilaterally and without international sanction.

In its persistent exercise of military power beyond its borders, the US exhibits a recurring contempt for the international legal order it helped establish. It invokes the language of defense and stability while pursuing a geopolitical strategy designed to entrench its hegemony, secure dominance over strategic regions, and reinforce the power of its favored regional allies, however morally indefensible those alliances may be. Chief among these is the state of Israel, whose ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people flagrantly violates international humanitarian law, with the full backing of the United States.

History bears witness to the catastrophic consequences of such unilateral interventions: from Iraq to Libya to Afghanistan, entire populations have been made to suffer under the weight of imperial interventions justified in the familiar rhetoric of “security interests”—a term routinely deployed by US officials to rationalize military offensives that ultimately serves power, profit, and imperial dominance. The current attack on Iran is but the latest expression of this consistent pattern of imperial aggression, aimed at consolidating global supremacy and projecting power with impunity.

The NUPL stands in solidarity with the peoples of Iran and all those committed to genuine peace grounded in sovereignty, human rights, and international law. The world cannot afford yet another war invoked in the name of security, but in truth serving imperial interests. ###

Reference:
Atty. Josalee S. Deinla
NUPL Secretary-General
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