Iran condemns US sanctions on ICC, highlights Washington’s complicity in Israeli crimes
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the United States' imposition of sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC), calling it an egregious abuse of power aimed at shielding the Israeli regime from accountability for its crimes.
In a Saturday statement on X, former Twitter, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei slammed Washington for its long-standing use of sanctions and coercive measures to advance its domestic interests internationally.
The move against the tribunal that the White House took on Friday, he said, marked a disturbing escalation of the US policy of illegal so-called punitive measures, with the country now targeting inter-governmental institutions like the ICC that aim to uphold the international law and justice.
Dozens of countries sprung to the court’s support after the move that had been authorized by US President Donald Trump in response to the ICC’s issuing arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli regime’s former minister for military affairs, Yoav Gallant in November.
The tribunal took the move over the duo’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, which has endured more than 15 months of a ferocious genocidal war by the regime that has so far claimed the lives of more than 47,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Baghaei emphasized that the American sanctions were specifically aimed at preventing the ICC from investigating the regime’s war crimes, including its ongoing atrocities against Palestinians.
"Sanctioning the ICC for investigating Israel's heinous crimes marks a new low in the annals of the US’s complicity and collusion with an occupying apartheid regime," he stated.
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