Iran has said that a “death sentence” for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not off the table. Palestine should consider capital punishment for top Israeli leadership, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has said.
According to a report by RT, last month, the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), a United Nations affiliate, issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing “reasonable grounds to believe” that they were committing war crimes and “other inhumane acts” during Israel’s operation against Hamas in Gaza. Israel has dismissed the court’s jurisdiction and denied committing war crimes.
Gharibabadi has said that the ICC has not made it a habit of prosecuting Israel appropriately, by his standards. “Such a court probably will not issue death sentences because it is affiliated with the UN,” he said, adding that there could be an alternative “formula” for obtaining capital punishment for Israeli officials. “Issuing a death sentence for Netanyahu is not impossible,” Gharibabadi said.
“Multiple countries have abolished the death penalty, but there are more than 55 countries that still have this form of punishment in their laws,” the diplomat noted. “Therefore, two or three like-minded countries that support the Palestinian people and oppose [Israeli] crimes can come together and form a joint court and issue a death sentence for these officials.”
Does supporting the execution of others also make you genocidal? If Iran is trying to take the high ground, it sure doesn’t look like morality is coming through. Gharibabadi said: “We should try to see if [the death sentence] is possible.”
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