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How is this not resulting in an immediate referral to The Hague?

Outright murder by a national military.

There was, and still is, no declared war between the USA and Iran, the Iranian ship was unarmed and defenceless, no succour was offered for survivors, and the action took place in international waters.

This action was every bit as bad as the attack on Pearl Harbour.

The USA is a rogue, pariah state run by a Congress and Executive who are criminals.

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Post from Kanwal Sibal (ex Indian Foreign Minister) @KanwalSibal on X: The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president . The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India’s sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India’s invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our“responsibility” is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy (after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.
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Aral Balkan
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The Hague doesn’t apply to the US (international law in general doesn’t apply to the US or Israel).

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Benjamin Balder Bach
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@aral oh wait, this also covers their allies!? So the US president is allowed/obligated to take military action to free Netanyahu if he's detained by ICC?

Like WTF, how are rich and democratic countries in Europe in a military alliance with someone who so openly declared "we're going to commit war crimes and no will stop us" already 24 years ago.

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Peter
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@aral

You missed my point.

Rulings from The Hague and the ICC do affect countries where the USA does business, including travel.

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Alex Feinman
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"How is this not resulting in an immediate referral to The Hague?"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American…

'The American Service-Members' Protection Act, known as the Hague Invasion Act...gives the president power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court"'

United States federal law enacted 2 August 2002

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