In comments at a meeting of the Judiciary’s supreme council on Monday, Ejei referred to Donald Trump’s explicit acknowledgment of direct US involvement in aggression against Iran during the June attacks.
He said the US president has once again openly confessed to committing crimes against Iran and its people, noting that Trump stated he had personally and directly intervened in the assault.
The Judiciary chief stressed that such a clear and explicit admission carries significant consequences under established criminal and international legal principles.
Ejei further instructed Iran’s prosecutor-general and the Judiciary’s deputy for international affairs to take necessary steps to prepare proceedings for addressing the crime in both international and domestic courts.
He noted that confession is among the strongest forms of evidence for establishing criminal responsibility.
In comments on November 6, Trump claimed responsibility for Israel’s initial attack on Iran, contradicting previous US assertions that the Zionist regime acted unilaterally.
“Israel attacked first. That attack was very, very powerful. I was very much in charge of that,” Trump told reporters.
On June 13, the Zionist regime launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, targeting military, nuclear, and residential areas for 12 consecutive days. The United States later escalated the conflict by striking three of Iran’s nuclear sites in Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan on June 22.
Iran’s Armed Forces delivered an immediate and forceful response. The IRGC Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes under Operation True Promise III, inflicting significant damage and heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.
In retaliation for the US attacks, Iranian forces also targeted al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar —the largest American military installation in West Asia— with a barrage of missiles.
The confrontation came to an end on June 24, when a ceasefire was enforced.