Donald Trump Says US Hit Iran Hard Because Tehran Cannot Have Nuclear Weapons

US President Donald Trump said in remarks at the White House on Friday that Iran is “dying to make a deal” and that Tehran “cannot have nuclear weapons.”

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Trump added, “But we hit them hard and we had no choice because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. They cannot have it.”

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Pakistan has done an “admirable job” as primary interlocutor during Iran negotiations, adding, “The primary interlocutor on this has been Pakistan and they’ve done an admirable job.”

The Indian Express also said the United States on May 22 indicated “slight progress” in talks with Iran while tensions remain over nuclear material, regional conflict and control of key waterways, and Rubio said there had been “a little bit of movement and that’s good.”

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier that the US-Israeli attack on Iran violated the UN Charter and rejected the framing of a “necessary war.”

Baghaei said, “The UN Charter does not recognize any notion of a ‘necessary war’ that would grant [the US] the right to use force against another sovereign nation.”

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In a separate account, Baghaei emphasized, “It was a flagrant violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter – a blatant act of aggression against a sovereign State.”

The BBC reported that more than 100 international-law experts signed an open letter expressing “deep concern” about what they see as grave violations of international law by the United States, Israel, and Iran in the ongoing war.

The BBC said the experts argued the US-Israel decision to attack Iran represented a clear breach of the UN Charter, which prohibits the use of force except in self-defense or when authorized by the UN Security Council.

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The BBC also reported that UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said, “Somewhere along the way, international law has not been observed.”

The BBC cited HRANA saying that 1,606 civilians, including at least 244 children, have died in Iran since the start of the conflict, and it also cited Lebanon’s Ministry of Health saying 1,345 people have died in Israeli attacks since March 2 of last year.

In the same BBC report, the experts highlighted an attack on Minab’s Good Tree Girls' Primary School in the Iranian city of Minab on the first day of the war that killed at least 168 people, including 110 children, and said the strike “could constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.”