Tehran, Nov. 28 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has accused the United States and its allies of undermining international law and pushing the world towards what he described as a "force-based international order" rooted in coercion and militarisation.

Opening the high-level conference International Law Under Assault, Aggression, and Self-Defence at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Tehran on Sunday, November 16, Araghchi said the post-Second World War legal framework was facing an "unprecedented and dangerous" erosion.

He claimed that Western governments had shifted from a law-based system to a politicised "rules-based order" shaped to advance their own geopolitical interests.

Araghchi cla...