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Vishnu Kannan
Saturday, June 22, 2019, 12:20 PM

Amidst the rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Ashley Deeks analyzed the question of the use of force and the right of self-defense with respect to the U.S. response to Iran, following the attack of two oil tankers earlier in June. Deeks and Scott Anderson then examined the legal implications of Iran's shooting down of a U.S.

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Amidst the rising tensions between the U.S. and Iran, Ashley Deeks analyzed the question of the use of force and the right of self-defense with respect to the U.S. response to Iran, following the attack of two oil tankers earlier in June. Deeks and Scott Anderson then examined the legal implications of Iran's shooting down of a U.S. surveillance drone in the vicinity of the Persian Gulf.


Benjamin Wittes observed that the president statements on Iran represent an improvement in the quality of his argumentation.


Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring a discussion between Wittes, Anderson and Suzanne Maloney on the tensions between the U.S. and Iran:



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Vishnu Kannan is special assistant to the president at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously he was a James C. Gaither Junior Fellow in Carnegie’s Technology and International Affairs Program, a researcher at Lawfare and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and an intern at the Brookings Institution. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University where he studied International Relations, Political Theory and Economics.

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