What the Trump-Iran moment has exposed is not a new problem but a pre-existing one made undeniable. The pressure to articulate AI accountability — who is responsible when AI spreads disinformation in a conflict zone, who governs AI-assisted military decision-making — collides with oversight systems that were already defined by overlap and jurisdictional ambiguity [1]. The ethical concepts developed in academic and policy contexts do not travel cleanly across geopolitical lines, which means each new crisis generates a fresh wave of calls for governance that no existing institution has the…