Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs said that it is "not impossible" to issue a death sentence to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes he committed against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"In my opinion, it is not impossible. "It is possible if efforts are made," Kazem Gharibabadi said in an interview with Khamenei.ir published on Sunday and quoted by PressTV.
He believes that at this stage there is no fair court to investigate the crimes of the Israeli regime, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) has only issued an arrest warrant, which is the most basic action of a judicial body.
He said that two or three countries that support the Palestinian people and oppose Israel's crimes could come together and form a "common court" to issue death sentences to regime officials.
"We should try to see if it is possible to form a court consisting of two or three like-minded countries that support the Palestinian people. Within this court, it will be possible to issue such decisions as the death penalty," Garibabadi stressed.
However, he added, it should be noted to what extent this decision can be implemented and what the guarantee for its implementation will be.
In November, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his former Minister of Defense Yoav Galant "for crimes against humanity and war crimes" committed from at least October 8, 2023, to at least May 20, 2024. on the day the prosecution filed the requests for arrest warrants.
It is the first time in the court’s 22-year history that it has issued arrest warrants for senior officials of Western allies.
Gharibabadi said before the ICC ruling, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague issued a ruling on a case brought by South Africa under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide with the support of some other states, which was another condemnation of the Israeli regime and its crimes.
South Africa initially filed a genocide case against the Israeli regime at the International Court of Justice in late 2023, weeks after the Israeli regime unleashed its brutal killing machine in Gaza in October.
In addition to South Africa, several other countries, including Spain, Mexico, Libya, Turkey, Nicaragua and Colombia, have joined the case, which began public hearings in January.
In May the UN's top court ordered the Tel Aviv regime to halt its incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Garibabdi said the United States was "fully complicit and responsible" for the crimes of the Israeli regime.
"The US has not only provided military and intelligence support to the Zionist regime, but also provides political and diplomatic support," the Iranian diplomat explained.
He stressed that Israel will definitely not survive without US support.
Last week, it was reported that the Israeli Defense Forces were considering a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The military believes that such an opportunity has arisen after the weakening of Iranian puppet groups in the Middle East and the fall of the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Against this backdrop, the Israeli Air Force continues to increase its readiness and preparation for such potential strikes against Iran.
This was revealed by The Times of Israel.
"The Israel Defense Forces also believe that Iran - isolated after the fall of the Assad regime and the weakening of its main puppet group "Hezbollah" in Lebanon - could move forward with its nuclear program and develop a bomb as it seeks to replace its deterrents," the article says."
Iran denies seeking nuclear weapons. The country assures that its nuclear activities and space program are for purely civilian purposes. However, the IAEA and US intelligence agencies claim that Tehran had an organized military nuclear program before 2003 and continued to develop it out of civilian necessity.