Eugene Kontorovich asks a good question: Shouldn’t the ICC be taking up Iran’s attacks on civilians?
Some might say the ICC isn’t involved because Iran, like its Arab neighbors, hasn’t joined the organization. The ICC is supposed to have jurisdiction only over member states. But Israel doesn’t belong to the court either. The ICC invented a “State of Palestine” in 2015 and allowed it to join the court—a legal fiction used to justify investigations of the Jewish state.
Last month an Iranian missile killed four Palestinian women at a bridal salon near Hebron. According to the ICC’s principles, this attack in “Palestine” gives the court jurisdiction over the responsible Iranian officials as well. . . .
The ICC appears to be sitting this one out not because it lacks jurisdiction, but because it lacks political will or perhaps interest.