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Rubio accused the ICC of "waging a war against our country, not with bullets or missiles," but with "the force of so-called international law."
The administration's ire against the ICC goes back to President Donald Trump's first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan. The second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.
However, the State Department-led, "whole-of-government campaign" to dismantle the ICC is a significant escalation, particularly as it seeks to pressure countries around the world to join and threatens potential cuts to US assistance for those who don't.
Top officials, including the secretary, deputy secretary, and US ambassadors, "are calling countries as part of a campaign to diplomatically isolate the International Criminal Court and ensure it cannot target Americans," the official said.
The calls are meant to persuade countries who are party to the ICC to withdraw from it "and cut off any financial support to the court," they said.
Rubio rejected allegations by outside organizations that the administration's deportations to El Salvador and its deadly boat strikes on alleged narco-terrorists had violated international law and rebuffed a call by one organization, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), for the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the US in Iran, but he claimed that such actions could risk investigation by the court.
[You may as well hang a 'we're guilty' sign around your neck.]
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The administration's ire against the ICC goes back to President Donald Trump's first term, when it targeted the ICC for seeking to investigate alleged war crimes committed by US forces in Afghanistan. The second Trump administration has imposed a slew of sanctions against ICC officials for their attempts to investigate the US and Israel.
However, the State Department-led, "whole-of-government campaign" to dismantle the ICC is a significant escalation, particularly as it seeks to pressure countries around the world to join and threatens potential cuts to US assistance for those who don't.
Top officials, including the secretary, deputy secretary, and US ambassadors, "are calling countries as part of a campaign to diplomatically isolate the International Criminal Court and ensure it cannot target Americans," the official said.
The calls are meant to persuade countries who are party to the ICC to withdraw from it "and cut off any financial support to the court," they said.
Rubio rejected allegations by outside organizations that the administration's deportations to El Salvador and its deadly boat strikes on alleged narco-terrorists had violated international law and rebuffed a call by one organization, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), for the ICC to investigate alleged war crimes committed by the US in Iran, but he claimed that such actions could risk investigation by the court.
[You may as well hang a 'we're guilty' sign around your neck.]
See also from Trump 1.0:
Trump authorizes sanctions against International Criminal Court employees and their families
President Donald Trump on Thursday authorized sanctions and additional visa restrictions against International Criminal Court personnel -- the latest attempt by the administration to strong arm the international body out of an investigation into a potential war crimes by US military and...
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