Abstract
The view of the United States that it can lawfully hunt and kill terrorists plotting attacks on Americans even in the territory of other states is not peculiar to the Administration of Donald Trump. The earlier Administrations of Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Jr had acted against terrorists similarly. However, the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, a senior state official of Iran, goes beyond the narrower issue of the targeted killing of terrorists to the right of self-defence in international law and deserves closer analysis because of its precarious implications for international law and its unique rule-making mechanism.
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