Dr. Trita Parsi

at the U.S.

Naval Base in Bahrain.

Whether that is because the air defense systems were overwhelmed or something else, I don't know.

But it was actually very surprising to see that a drone would make its way into the otherwise very fortified American base there.

Let me answer, but I do want to, I can't resist to comment on Carney and what he just said.

Mindful of the fact that he gave a speech that was widely celebrated at Davos in which he famously said that we're taking the sign down, mentioned very clearly that we knew that international law was invariably implemented based on the

identity of the attacker and the identity of the victim.

And here we have a perfect case of that in which this is, as you pointed out, a clear violation of international law.

But Carney, the Finnish prime minister, who also wrote this article about values-based realism, could not even get themselves to even get close to a condemnation or even actually using the term international law.

So

When Carney says that the rules-based order essentially is over with, we're taking down the sign, many of us, perhaps a bit of a wishful thinking, believe that perhaps this would mean that he's going to do a re-embrace of international law rather than a rules-based system because law is much firmer.

Instead, we're seeing that he's not even using the word international law.

At the first instance in which his new little thesis would have been tested, he utterly, utterly failed.

And so did the vast majority of European leaders, save the exception of Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, and Spain, the same group who incidentally also stood firmly on the side of international law when it came to the genocide in Gaza.

Now, when it comes to the regional states,

This is part of the reason why they were so against this in the first place.

They knew that they would be victimized in this.

They have to, of course, from their standpoint, come up with very, very strong condemnations.

These are at the end of the day attacks on their soil.

And the Iranian response is, this is not meant to attack you.