On Thursday June 14 , 2007 , the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Mohamed ElBaradei , speaking at a meeting of the IAEA , said that war against Iran " would be catastrophic , it would be an act of madness , and it would not solve the issue . " During the preceding several weeks , ElBaradei had several times expressed his opposition to a military attack on Iran . He made these statements as part of what he saw as his role as Director General of the IAEA , stating " I have no brief other than to make sure we do not go into another war , or that we go crazy into killing each other . " In late July 2008 , human rights lawyer Francis Boyle recommended that the Iranian government should sue the United States and Israel in the International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in order to get an Order of Provisional Measures of Protection ( the equivalent of a temporary restraining order in national or local law ) , against military action against Iran by these two states . Boyle previously aided Bosnia in filing a similar lawsuit at the ICJ against Serbia on 19 March 1993 , and obtained this on 8 April 1993 . Boyle points out that he also helped file a lawsuit of this type against the United States in early 1992 , and claims that this helped to provide a diplomatic solution to threats of a United States military attack on Libya in relation to the Lockerbie dispute
Lockerbie dispute
Pan Am Flight 103
Opposition to military action against Iran