Iran war: Will Europe's split on US strikes backfire?

Spain says the US and Israel have breached international law, Germany says it's no time to lecture allies. Even legal experts are split. Critics warn that reluctance to call out unlawful conduct could come back to bite.

Europe divided and on edge as US-Israeli attacks on Iran ripple across the continent

The simmering war in the Middle East fractured Europe on Monday, as allies clashed, tempers flared and the shock waves from the US and Israeli bombing of Iran threatened to reverberate through the continent. The crisis exposed a familiar European fault line: while leaders insist they are the last guardians of the rules-based international order, they remain split over how to respond when allies bend or break those rules. With oil price spikes threatening to compound the European economic...

By Finbarr Bermingham,Xiaofei Xu