How the ICC can be saved

OPINION OPINION, Opinion | ICC How the ICC can be saved Hoping for ‘dialogue’ with the US over its sanctions on the ICC is meaningless. Action is needed to protect the court. Add Al Jazeera on Google The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seen on December 9, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands [File: Peter Dejong/AP] The sanctions the United States has imposed on the International Criminal Court threaten to degrade its capacity to function, leaving it to die a slow institutional death. Its continued operation as an international organisation, let alone a court of law, would become impossible.