The Legality and Morality of Fighting Iran, Killing their Leaders

    Well, the United States and Israel have combined to lethally execute operations against a major world leader, a religious icon, or a spiritual and political authority for the Republic of Iran and much of the Shia Muslim world.

    Does this fit into many Biblical narratives? I think this is likely. For those of us who believe and try to live by Biblical and scriptural covenants, blessings, and prophecies, it smacks of heavy and perhaps not accidental events and occurrences.

    The laws of the United States are being violated by such acts, according to a friend that spoke to me at a party last night. It deserves consideration, this accusation. Did the U.S. Congress need to give approval? Did the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization give the U.S. president and military carte blanche to strike as they wanted?

    Grey areas, not black and white. The recent capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife was considered legal since the Cartel de Soles was qualified as terrorist. As the drug runners being blown up in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Whether some of those boats are really illegally moving illicit drugs is not always known. 

    Questions to ponder, legal and moral.

    Habeas corpus, all the rights of defendants or accusees of whether they deserve a trial.

    In the last 25 years, arguably longer (see Clinton trying to kill Bin Laden in 1998), killing enemies of the state who are terrorist has become normal, accepted.

    Israel is very determined to weed out its existential enemies. Especially since October 7, 2023. The tone and the rules of the deadly game has changed. Syria fell to the freedom fighters, which seems better for many. Lebanon has lost firebrands that threatened the existence of Israel.

    Israel has wiped out many Hamas members and fighters in Gaza City, and in other places. Hezbollah has a continual target on its back. No safe quarter, even in the rich Gulf States like United Arab Emirates.

    Saudi Arabia, and maybe Jordan, were pressuring the U.S. to strike Iran.

    Donald Trump determined that many U.S. presidents failed to combat and stand up to Iran and its threats as he has done. The revolution in 1979 was egregious to us and many citizens of many lands, while the bombings of the barracks in Beirut in 1983 were worse. Iran was blamed for killing our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2000s.

    They, the Irani government, would not back down from developing nuclear power.

    Israel could not abide by it. And the U.S decided by executive order and military might to do the extreme, "decapitate" Iranian leadership in order to let the people of Iran to make the next steps.

    Legal? Moral?

    What else is there to consider?

    Certainly awful and tragic that we killed school girls, maybe in Teheran, as collateral damage.

    Wars and military strikes are always a mixed curse of strategy and woe.

    Blood is on our hands, as a commander once said to me.

    Will the blood of guilty and innocents be attributed to our souls?

    I think so.

    The next days and weeks will determine much more.

    How will the next leaders of Shia Islam proceed? I think, undoubtedly, with more caution and less bravado. Will there be retaliation from some of the followers of Islam? Likely, too.

    We must figure things out.