Västkustpassanten

As Israel and the US attack Iran, William and I take the SNU bus into the mist for another chess tournament, this time in Jörlanda. With the strikes having just begun, it is impossible to predict the outcome, but as always, my instinct is that conflict rarely makes the world better.

Over the years, I have written quite a bit about Iran here on Rawls & Me, even though I never had the chance to visit the country myself. Like most people, I was horrified by the brutality of the Iranian regime in suppressing popular dissent earlier this year. Still, there is clearly no legal basis for this attack, and it further erodes what remains of the rules-based international order.