Ex-president warns against war with Iran

Former US President Jimmy Carter has warned against a possible war with Iran and denounced the United States’ involvement in unjust conflicts.


Carter, who served as US president from 1977 to 1981, made the remarks in a keynote address at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago on Monday, AFP reported.

War is only just when it is a "last resort" after "every other possible peaceful resolution" is exhausted, when all efforts are made to protect civilians, when the purpose of the conflict is to make the situation better, not worse, when society in general agrees it is just, and when the level of violence is "proportional to the injury received," he said, adding, "That would obviously exclude our recent policy of preemptive war."

Carter said that while he is "not against conflict when necessary," the criteria for a just war are often not met.


/PressTV/