Iran calls on international community to hold Israeli ‘criminal leaders’ accountable

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has called for the Israeli regime’s “criminal leaders” to be held accountable for their crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, as the genocidal war against the besieged territory continues unabated.

Nasser Kan'ani made the appeal in a post on his X account on Sunday, urging the international community to take immediate action to prevent Israel from committing more crimes against innocent Palestinians.

He further compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, while decrying the inaction of the international community that has led to the continuation of the Israeli regime's brutal war on Gaza.

“About eight decades after the Nuremberg trials, history is once again witnesses to the emergence of another Hitler; A criminal that continues the merciless genocide and killing of innocent Palestinian women and children in the shadow of the international community's inaction,” Kan’ani said.

“If those claiming to be defenders of human rights value humanity and human lives, now is the time to act; tomorrow is too late. The human society is thirsty for humanity and justice more than ever and demands the trial of the Zionist regime’s criminal leaders,” he added.

His remarks come two days after Asadullah Eshraq Jahromi, the director general for International Peace and Security at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, underlined the need for holding Israel to account for the crimes it is perpetrating in the occupied Palestinian territories and elsewhere in the region.

Iran calls for 'decisive' world action to stop Israeli genocide

A top Iranian diplomat says the Israeli regime is the main obstacle to the achievement of stability and sustainable development in the Muslim world and the West Asia region.

On Friday, Eshraq Jahromi expressed deep concern over the ongoing Israeli atrocities against the oppressed Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip over the past eleven months during an address to the 50th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the Cameroonian capital of Yaounde.

He called on the international community and the OIC to adopt a decisive measure aimed at the immediate cessation of Israeli actions, which amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

So far, the regime has killed at least 40,691 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Another 94,060 Palestinians have sustained injuries as well.

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