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Review of Legality of Preemptive Self - Defense Doctrine

Propounding the possibility of resort to force against U.S. oppositions in the framework, of preemptive self-defense doctrine, firstly introduced by U.S. officials and then codified in the U.S. national security strategy document, faced legal bodies with the serious challenge that to what extent international law accepts such concepts. Waging a large - scale war against Iraq which proceeded to the phase of changing the ruling regime in that country,intensified the severity and enlarged the aspects of this challenge. The present article is trying to critically evaluate legal justifications of the doctrine on the basis of reasons and argumentations put forward by planners and supporters of preepmtive self-defense doctrine. Then it draws conclusions that to what extent U.S measures in this framework are legally acceptable and justifiable or, conversely, illegal and illegitimate.