WANA (Aug 16) – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs has responded to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Vice President’s expression of support for Israel.

 

Kazem Gharibabadi, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, wrote on his X account:
“A shocking breach of judicial ethics: the ICJ Vice President openly sides with Israel, a regime with multiple cases before the Court. Such blatant bias undermines the credibility of the ICJ and violates the fundamental principle of judicial impartiality.”

 

Julia Sebutinde, the Ugandan Vice President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), stated that God had “chosen me to stand with Israel” and that signs of the “end times” were “manifesting” in the Middle East.

 

Earlier last year, Sebutinde was the only judge among the 17-member bench to oppose all six provisional measures issued by the Court in its ruling that found South Africa’s genocide claim against Israel in Gaza to be “plausible.” Again, in July 2024, she was the sole dissenter when a 15-judge panel ruled that Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories was “illegal.”