To all my Iranian friends: Do devout, regime supporter families take part in Nowruz festivities of Iran? Or do they boycott Nowruz labeling it as un-islamic?

Is it too much to ask? Please don’t make the same mistake as your predecessors 🤣. https://youtu.be/YlwXOHIXuw0

The *ICC* stands for the *International Criminal Court*. It is the world's first permanent international criminal court, based in The Hague, Netherlands. It was established in 2002 by the Rome Statute, an international treaty. It investigates and prosecutes individuals (not countries or governments) for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. It acts as a court of last resort and only steps in when national courts are unwilling or unable to genuinely prosecute the crimes. Most countries that actually fight wars, including the US, Russia, China, and India, never joined the *ICC*. 80 percent of armies in active conflict are not *ICC* members. Arab states constantly accuse Israel of violating international law, yet only Tunisia ever joined the *ICC*. Arab countries demanded Europe accept Syrian refugees, but none of them signed the Refugee Convention themselves. Saudi Arabia and Qatar took in zero refugees. International law cannot enforce itself. It is politics pretending to be law. International law did not save the Muslims of Bosnia. Bill Clinton did, by ordering the bombing of Belgrade. It did not stop the Rwandan genocide. Nobody did. A million Tutsis were killed. Right now, South Africa, which accuses Israel of genocide, abstained from a UN fact-finding mission on potential mass deaths in Iran. The spread of democracy comes from American power and example after WWII, not from imaginary global rules. Real law offers protection in exchange for obedience. International law is just politics: whatever powerful states agree to, or whatever is convenient. The *ICC* is not part of the United Nations. It is independent, though the UN Security Council can refer cases to it. Many major powers that frequently engage in conflict have not joined, including the United States, Russia, China, and India. Around 125 countries are members, but a large number of countries likely to fight wars have stayed out. Only a small number of Arab countries have joined.

Roman Gofman was recently approved to replace David Barnea as head of Mossad. Today, Barnea gave a (rare) public farewell address and stated "Our responsibility has not been fulfilled until this extremist regime in Iran is replaced. We never believed it would happen immediately after the aerial-bombing campaign, but we believed and planned that our part (ie Mossad's) would continue after the attacks on Tehran." This is live now. I'll post the review of the speech once it is reported in the press.