BRICS+ Series: What the Iran War Reveals About the Unfinished Business of Multipolarity

When the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025, they did not only attack a sovereign nation. They attacked the foundational principle that the Global South has spent decades trying to institutionalise, that military force cannot be the first language of international relations, and that no power, however large, should be above the rules it demands others follow. For BRICS, the war on Iran is not a crisis of credibility. It is a clarifying moment.

BRICS+ Series: What the Iran War Reveals About the Unfinished Business of Multipolarity
When the United States and Israel launched coordinated strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025, they did not only attack a sovereign nation. They attacked the foundational principle that the Global South has spent decades trying to institutionalise, that military force cannot be the first language of international relations, and that no power, however large, should be above the rules it demands others follow. For BRICS, the war on Iran is not a crisis of credibility. It is a clarifying moment.