Ayatollah Khamenei, the “supreme leader” of Iran's terrorist state, called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to order the execution of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in remarks on Monday.
Khamenei last week responded to a request from prosecutor Karim Khan in May to issue arrest warrants for the ICC against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant. A court announced indictments against Israeli leaders for allegedly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during Israel's self-defense operation in Gaza against the Iranian-backed genocidal terrorist organization Hamas. ICC too issued Warrant against Mohammed Deif, head of the Hamas “military” unit, Al-Qassam Brigades.
Khan had also initially requested warrants against Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar, but both were confirmed dead before the ICC could rule on the case. israel government Confirmed Deiff died in August, but the ICC Prosecution Service said The judges could not confirm that claim, so they issued a warrant.
Israel joined Hamas on October 8, 2023, after jihadists invaded the country and carried out an unprecedented massacre of civilians, including entire families killed in their homes, leaving an estimated 1,200 people dead. declared war against. Hamas terrorists also abducted more than 200 people in Israeli territory and extensively tortured, raped, and abused random people. Following news of mass killings by its proxies, Iran celebrated the massacre with street parties and fireworks displays.
The ICC claims that Israel's operation in Gaza to prevent a repeat of October 7 constitutes a war crime and potentially genocide. The Israeli government vehemently rejected the accusations, saying issuing the warrant was an “anti-Semitic” act.
Khamenei also spoke at Monday's event and appeared disappointed in the warrant as it did not result in Prime Minister Netanyahu's death.
“The (ICC) arrest warrant is not enough. Prime Minister Netanyahu must be sentenced to death,” Khamenei declared, according to Iran's state-run propaganda outlet. press tv.
Opposition media “Iran International” explained This request is inconsistent with the purpose and mandate of the ICC.
“Khamenei's request comes at a time when international legal bodies, including the ICC, firmly oppose the death penalty,” the report said. “Khamenei's request comes as international legal bodies, including the ICC, firmly oppose the death penalty.”
The ICC was founded on the Rome Statute, an international legal instrument, so countries that have not signed the Statute have no enforcement powers. It has no enforcement mechanism of its own and cannot legally kill anyone. Even countries that have signed the Rome Statute do not necessarily follow the ICC's directives. Argentina, for example, announced last week that it would not execute any warrants against Israeli officials.
“Israel is facing a brutal invasion, an inhumane taking of hostages and the launch of indiscriminate attacks against its people,” Argentine President Javier Millay said in a statement. “To criminalize the legitimate defense of a nation while ignoring these atrocities is an act that perverts the spirit of international justice.”
In contrast, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, an ardent leftist, told reporters shortly after the ICC issued the warrant that he would execute it if Netanyahu visited his country.
“We comply with all regulations and judgments of international courts. This is who we are as Canadians,” he said.
Iran's Tasnim News Agency quotation Khamenei said: “The foolish Zionists imagine themselves as victors by bombing people's homes, hospitals, and places where people gather. No, no one in the world considers it a victory. Opponents of Israel's presence point out that Hamas has installed extensive terrorist infrastructure in civilian areas, using tunnels, weapons, and locations such as hospitals and children's rooms to hide terrorists. The Israeli Defense Forces often claim that they attack Gaza indiscriminately, ignoring the
Khamenei spoke at an event praising the Basij, a volunteer militia that Iran uses to terrorize Iranians suspected of opposing the regime or the continuation of decades of rule. I was doing it.
“They are armed, ideologically brainwashed and easily mobilized,” said an anonymous Iranian student. explained to time “The Basij is one of the Islamic regime's most powerful and most sophisticated creations,” the magazine's 2022 organizational profile states.
The Basij is a wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a US-designated terrorist organization and an official wing of the Iranian military. The Revolutionary Guards are a network of jihadist terrorist proxies across the Middle East, including Iran's Resistance Front, Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a network of terrorists known as the Islamic Resistance Front. It is an important organization. Iraq. “
Elsewhere in Monday's remarks, Khamenei “stressed the absolute and inviolable need for the expansion of the resistance front” to continue to terrorize the Israeli people, Tasnim said.
