Trump’s policies vis-à-vis Iran and Palestine violate international law: Expert
US President Donald Trump’s decisions to relocate the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds and withdraw from the multi-nation Iran nuclear agreement are a violation of international law and is destabilizing an already volatile region, an Iranian scholar says.
Israel has been carrying out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their occupied lands for decades and the US is supporting Israel’s crimes by moving its embassy to Jerusalem al-Quds, said Mohammad Marandi, a professor at the University of Tehran.
“The United States; not only does it support what Israel is doing by moving its embassy to al-Quds, which is against international law, because even according to international law, the law that the United States helped create through a UN Security Council resolution, the status of Jerusalem can not be determined by the United States or the [Israeli] regime,” Marandi told Press TV on Friday.
Trump is also violating the Iran nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the academic said.
The US president announced on May 8 that Washington was walking away from the JCPOA, which was reached between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- the US, Britain, France, Russia and China -- plus Germany.
“But not only is the United States breaking international law in this regard, it's also violating its commitments with regards to Iran and the JCPOA,” Marandi said.
In an article published Friday, The Washington Post pointed to the potential outbreak of a wider war in the Middle East as the result of Trump’s policies in the region.
The newspaper said that broadcast of scenes from Israeli killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza, along with the footage of American and Israeli officials celebrating the new US embassy move to al-Quds, have led to a resurgence of Arab sympathies for the plight of the Palestinians while implicating Washington in the carnage.
Experts in the US and the Arab world have expressed major fears about “reckless” moves by Trump vis-à-vis Iran and Palestine.
"Either one of these steps would have rocked the region, but both coming in the space of less than a week amounted to “a recklessness that is frightening,” said Bruce Riedel, an American expert on US foreign policy and a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution in Washington.
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