Khamenei says Israeli leaders must be ‘sentenced to death,’ arrest warrants ‘not enough’

Author: Published: November 25, 2024

His remarks came after the ICC issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024 10:13
Updated: NOVEMBER 25, 2024 10:47
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran on Sunday. When former supreme leader Khomeini said, ‘We shall export our revolution to the whole world until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world,’ he meant it, the writer affirms. (photo credit: WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS)
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting in Tehran on Sunday. When former supreme leader Khomeini said, ‘We shall export our revolution to the whole world until the cry ‘There is no god but Allah’ resounds over the whole world,’ he meant it, the writer affirms.
(photo credit: WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY/REUTERS)

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Monday that death sentences, rather than arrest warrants, should be issued for Israeli leaders.

“Netanyahu and the criminal leaders of this regime must be sentenced to death,” Khamenei said.

His remarks came after the International Criminal Court  (ICC) issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defense minister Yoav Gallant, and former Hamas military wing chief Mohammad Deif.

“What the Zionist regime did in Gaza and Lebanon is not a victory, it is a war crime,” Khamenei said in a speech that was quoted by Iranian state media IRNA. “Now, they have issued a warrant for their arrest. This is not enough.”

Khamenei previously tweeted on Saturday to his X/Twitter account in Hebrew that “All the political and military leaders of the criminal Zionist terrorist gang must be prosecuted.”

Iran ‘immediately’ accelerating nuclear program to ‘punish’ IAEA

Author: Published: November 25, 2024
November 25, 2024
Iran ‘immediately’ accelerating nuclear program to ‘punish’ IAEA
A student looks at Iran’s domestically built centrifuges in an exhibition in Tehran of Iran’s nuclear achievements, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
(AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran ‘immediately’ accelerating nuclear program to ‘punish’ IAEA

“We will significantly increase our uranium enrichment capacity,” says spokesman for Iran’s nuclear development program.

By World Israel News Staff

Iran announced that it is “immediately” activating advanced centrifuges for uranium enrichment, as a punitive measure after an international nuclear watchdog group criticized Tehran for refusing to cooperate with an oversight program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) recently passed a resolution urging Iran to be more transparent in regards to its nuclear development program, calling on the country to allow IAEA inspectors to visit and monitor its nuclear sites.

That resolution sparked outrage among Iran’s senior leadership, who released a statement indicating that it would ramp up nuclear development as an act of defiance against the IAEA.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s reciprocal response to this political misuse of the [IAEA] Board of Governors was immediately put into action, and the deployment of a set of new and advanced centrifuges has begun,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf told Iran International.

Ghalibaf described the resolution as “anti-Iran” and “harmful,” and claimed that it was an “unjust” decision against Iran’s “peaceful” nuclear program.

“We will significantly increase our enrichment capacity, deploy various advanced machines, and enhance the speed of industrial research and development for each machine,” Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi said in a Farsi-language TV interview.

“Our infrastructure will be strengthened, and security measures will be improved through other actions,” he added.

Despite Iran’s decision to ramp up its nuclear program rather than allow international inspectors at its site, some countries are still urging Tehran to return to the negotiation table, with the goal of returning to the 2015 nuclear deal.

“We note with serious concern Iran’s announcement… that, instead of responding to the resolution with cooperation, it plans to respond with further expansion of its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful rationale,” the United States, Britain, France and Germany said in a joint statement released by the U.S. State Department.

“We expect Iran to reengage on the path of dialogue and cooperation with the agency.”

Iran Guards chief: ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu is ‘political death’ of Israel

Author: Published: November 22, 2024
By AFPToday, 10:55 am

 

Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami speaks during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran on November 3, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards describes the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yova Gallant as the “end and political death” of Israel.

“This means the end and political death of the Zionist regime, a regime that today lives in absolute political isolation in the world and its officials can no longer travel to other countries,” Revolutionary Guards chief General Hossein Salami says in the speech aired on state TV.

In the first official reaction by Iran, Salami calls the ICC warrant “a welcome move” and a “great victory for the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements,” in reference to terror organizations supported by Tehran.

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