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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/8d0e1dbb8b165fcb https://verfassungsblog.de/the-iran-war-and-the-dutch-retreat-from-international-law/ The Iran War and the Dutch Retreat from International Law - Without International Law as a Compass, the Netherlands Is Adrift in the Fog of a New World Order Spijkers, Otto eng 2026-03-04 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 International Law US-Iran-War Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 2 March, the Netherlands’ new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tom Berendsen, stated that he could have “understanding” for the American and Israeli attacks on Iran. According to the minister, we must thus pursue a more realistic course in which there is only limited room for international law. Such a relativization of international law, and its selective application, is troubling, not only from a moral perspective, but above all from a constitutional one.