Khamenei calls for 'death sentence' for Netanyahu, Israeli leaders
In an address to thousands of Basij militia members on Monday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the International Criminal Court arrest warrants issued last week for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant were insufficient.
"What [they have] done in Gaza and Lebanon is not a victory, it is a war crime," Khamenei said.
"Now they have issued arrest warrants for them; this is not enough," he added of the ICC decision. "A death sentence must be issued for Netanyahu and the criminal leaders of this regime."
The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, who the Israel Defense Forces claimed to have killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July.
Netanyahu's office expressed its "disgust" at the decision and dismissed the ICC warrant as "absurd."
-ABC News' Somayeh Malekian and Joe Simonetti