Article 51 recognizes states' rights to individual or collective self-defense. Israel has a plausible self-defense claim based on the Iranian regime's proxy attacks against it, and its explicit mission of destroying it. If we accept that premise, then by extension Israel's allies also have a right to act in its defense.
There could also be separate arguments that the Iranian plot to assassinate Trump gives the US casus belli.
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Article 51 recognizes states' rights to individual or collective self-defense. Israel has a plausible self-defense claim based on the Iranian regime's proxy attacks against it, and its explicit mission of destroying it. If we accept that premise, then by extension Israel's allies also have a right to act in its defense.
There could also be separate arguments that the Iranian plot to assassinate Trump gives the US casus belli.