Why it matters:
The United States is one of the countries that has advanced its policies over the past few decades by using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council and other international bodies.
The big picture:
The United States recently vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to the Israeli regime's genocide in Gaza.
The U.S. also advancing its foreign policy through coercion and intimidation - to sanction and harass ICC judges and personnel.
What he's saying:
This is a new low - even for a system that is badly addicted to advancing its foreign policy through coercion and intimidation - to sanction and harass ICC judges and personnel for holding up to their judicial mandate, said Iran's MFA spokesman.
"The U.S. continues to abuse its power, in line with vetoing UNSC's most recent resolution to stop genocide, so as to ensure maximum impunity for Israel's atrocity crimes and ethnic cleansing in occupied Palestine."
"This makes United States the most enduring and persistent accomplice in Israeli regime’s horrifying crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression."
"It's high time the int'l community stood up against such barbarism that is shaking the whole fabric of int'l law and unsettling the basic tenets of humanity."
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