Iran: International arrest warrants for Israeli officials cannot be overridden by social media posts
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman says international arrest warrants issued for Israeli officials over crimes committed in the Gaza Strip cannot be overturned through social media posts, questioning the credibility of the current international legal order.
“Is this the 21st-century international order — or the Wild West, where a self-appointed sheriff can post a ‘WANTED’ notice on social media and simultaneously act as judge, jury and executioner whenever it suits him?” Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on his X account on Tuesday.
Is this the 21st-century international order-or the Wild West, where a self-appointed sheriff can post a “WANTED” poster on social media and at once play judge, jury, and executioner whenever it suits him?
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) August 11, 2026
When a competent international court has already investigated the… pic.twitter.com/KOQtlRLn98
He went on to say that “a competent international judicial body had already investigated the atrocities committed in Gaza and issued arrest warrants for Israeli criminals."
“A single social-media post cannot rewrite the law, override due process or erase the rulings of an international court,” Baghaei said.
His comments came in response to an earlier post by US President Donald Trump in which he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not be arrested if he visited the United States, despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over crimes in Gaza.
Netanyahu has been the subject of an ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza. New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, doubled down on his support for the ICC and called on federal authorities to execute the court’s warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest should he visit the city during the UN General Assembly meeting in September.
On November 21, 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant following an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Gaza genocide.
The court said the two bore responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.
Since launching its genocidal assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded at least 174,000 others, the majority of them women and children.
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