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