Marc Schack

A brief guide to Iranian ballistic missiles - AOAV This AOAV guide outlines the key ballistic missile systems used by Iran, namely the Haj Qasem, Khaibar Shekan, Ghadr, and the Emad. It briefly sets out their technical specifications. We contend that ...

Very useful guide on Iranian ballistic missiles - and a key point: “Iran’s missile response included weapons from its most advanced arsenals … each capable of long-range precision strikes, though fundamentally indiscriminate when deployed in urban areas.”:
aoav.org.uk/2025/a-brief...

Opdateringen kan læses her:
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Vores hidtidige opdateringer mv. kan i øvrigt læses her:
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Ny InterMil-opdatering om krigen mellem Israel og Iran: Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, Ulrik Graff (FAK) og jeg ser bl.a. på, om Israels angreb kan forstås som lovligt selvforsvar, og om krigens love ser ud til at blive overholdt i forbindelse med Israels og Irans konkrete angreb. (link nedenfor)

Ny kronik med @astridk_p: Helt kort er pointen, at Mads Bryde Andersen ikke gengiver folkeretten loyalt, når han diagnosticerer og foreslår løsninger på det erklærede problem, at EMRK/EMD på urimelig vis står i vejen for udvisning af kriminelle udlændinge:
www.berlingske.dk/kronikker/da...

If true, possibly - but there was significant disagreement at the time.

At that time, NATO said that the RTS facilities were being used “as radio relay stations and transmitters to support the activities of the FRY military and special police forces, and therefore they represent legitimate military targets”. See: icty.org/sid/10052#IVB3

I guess this calls for a repeat of the debate on the 1999 NATO bombing of the Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) facilities and when such facilities can be considered dual use. I.e. whether Iranian state TV can plausibly be considered part of Iranian military C3.

De fleste stopper analysen hér, men et mindretal mener, at atomforskere i helt ekstraordinære tilfælde alligevel kan angribes. Der henvises ofte til de centrale personer under anden verdenskrig. Det giver en vis logisk mening - men retligt synes jeg, at det er svært at forsvare.

Det er de som alt overvejende hovedregel ikke. Forskere, som er del af de væbnede styrker, vil generelt være det pga deres militære status - men ikke pga deres forskning. Civile forskere vil ikke. Kravet er, at de skal tage direkte del i fjendtlighederne - og forskeres bidrag er som regel indirekte.

The entire briefing note - which is only 11 pages - is really worth a read, as it is clear and explicit about both its assumptions and data:
openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

The briefing note makes clear, however, that reports from Gaza on the exhaustion of supplies "suggests that the lower bound of these estimates may be more representative of the current situation than the upper bound."

For those following the humanitarian situation in Gaza, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently produced a briefing note on the availability of food in Gaza (before the GHF began operating - i.e. the baseline for that operation). They presented the following estimate:

This is about as strong language as you're going to get from the ICRC. When they do this, they mean it.

“… the fact that we are watching a people being entirely stripped of its human dignity should really shock our collective conscience.”

“State leaders are under an obligation to act.”

Act now to save lives in Gaza, ICRC head urges world leaders Mirjana Spoljaric has appealed to world leaders to intervene in the conflict in Gaza.

The head of the ICRC with an extremely clear and alarming message on the situation in Gaza:

“Humanity is failing in Gaza … We cannot continue to watch what is happening. It’s surpassing any acceptable legal, moral and humane standard.”

www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Det giver i hvert fald ikke mening, det han skriver. Folkedrab dækker blot over, at man begår de handlinger, som er beskrevet i folkedrabskonventionen (navnlig drab) med en folkedrabshensigt. Det er underordnet, hvordan det præcist gennemføres - udover, at lovlig krigsførelse nok ikke er dækket.

Førende eksperter: Mette Frederiksen kan ikke »tvinge« en uafhængig domstol til at makke ret – men hun har flere muligheder Læs mere her.

Fint overblik over de reelle forhold omkring Den Europæiske Menneskerettighedsdomstols praksis på udvisningsområdet - og forsøget på at påvirke domstolen:

www.berlingske.dk/politik/foer...

Information har talt med Alex de Waal, en af verdens absolut førende forskere inden for sult under krig og konflikt, om situationen i Gaza. Han er altid værd at lytte til:

“…When it does this, and the IPC reports that the deterioration has been arrested, Israeli advocates claim that the famine story was made-up all along. That’s wrong.”

The brutal flaw in Israel’s starvation plan

Read Alex de Waal to understand the situation on aid in Gaza:

A key element:
“Encouraged by the United States, Israel has tried to keep the Gazans from descending into “famine” by turning the aid tap on whenever the data indicate it is about to cross that threshold….”

unherd.com/2025/05/the-...

Interesting. And hard to disagree with their skepticism.

Jeremy Hill, Aust’s Modern Treaty Law and Practice (4. Edition, 2023)

Thomas Giegerich, Commentary to article 54 i Dörr & Schmalenbach’s Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, a commentary (2018) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Qa1qlh7)

Björn Arp, Denunciation Followed by Re-accession with Reservations to a Treaty (2014) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/Ddownaf)

Laurence R. Helfer, Not Fully Committed? (2006) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/ph0g2Vr )

Anthony Aust, Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law, Treaties, Termination (2006) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/wunadx7)

Glenn McGrory, Reservations of Virtue? (2001) (materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/jidsBa5 )

Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law, Council of Europe (2000) (Materialet kan findes her: buff.ly/mC3Jtwy )

"...does not pursue this purpose at all but merely serves to make a subsequent reservation. This would constitute an exercise of law contrary to its purpose."

Oversættelse: "Ultimately, such an approach would also have to be considered an abuse of law. The purpose of denunciation is to terminate the obligation under international law. However, denunciation with the intention of immediately re-ratifying the treaty ..."