{"id":8224,"date":"2024-11-23T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/icc-arrest-warrants-against-netanyahu-gallant-hailed-by-iran-foreign-ministry-spokesman\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T22:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T18:38:22","slug":"icc-arrest-warrants-against-netanyahu-gallant-hailed-by-iran-foreign-ministry-spokesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/icc-arrest-warrants-against-netanyahu-gallant-hailed-by-iran-foreign-ministry-spokesman\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu, Gallant hailed by Iran foreign ministry spokesman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5259708.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei welcomed the International Criminal Court&#8217;s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">In a Friday night post on X, Baqaei declared, \u201cFourteen long months into the occupying regime&#8217;s genocidal campaign in Gaza, marked by the most harrowing atrocities, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I finally issued arrest warrants for the two top criminals Netanyahu and Gallant. Of course, their indictment should have included &#8216;genocide&#8217; which is manifest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Baqaei said the warrants were a positive step towards justice. \u201cWe welcome any step to serve justice and end the Israeli regime&#8217;s impunity for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity committed in occupied Palestine and elsewhere,\u201d he stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He directly attributed the delay in holding Israel accountable to the United States. \u201cChronic procrastination in holding Israel accountable \u2013 mainly due to the US&#8217;s covert and overt obstructions and bullying \u2013 has allowed atrocity crimes to persist in occupied Palestine,\u201d Baqaei added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The spokesperson emphasized the importance of immediate action. \u201cFull and immediate implementation of these arrest warrants will test the effectiveness of the international criminal justice,\u201d Baqaei stated, expressing a cautious optimism while voicing concern that the process could be manipulated. \u201cHope this late decision would not be manipulated through abuse of process.\u201d<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/506661\/ICC-arrest-warrants-against-Netanyahu-Gallant-hailed-by-Iran\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei welcomed the International Criminal Court&#8217;s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former War Minister Yoav Gallant. In a Friday night post on X, Baqaei declared, \u201cFourteen long months into the occupying regime&#8217;s genocidal campaign in Gaza, marked by the most harrowing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,10,6,13],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international-criminal-court-icc","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}