TEHRAN -- Iran said on Wednesday it has issued an indictment against seven senior figures and operatives of the Israeli regime, including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over the September 2024 explosions of pagers belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.

Tehran Prosecutor Ali Salehi said the case was opened following a complaint filed by Iran’s then-ambassador to Beirut, Mojtaba Amani, as well as a criminal complaint lodged by Iran’s Foreign Ministry.

“The defendants are being prosecuted on charges of corruption on Earth through intentionally causing bodily harm, attempted intentional murder, and the destruction, disabling, or disruption of data through the use of computer and telecommunications systems in Lebanon,” Salehi said.

Salehi said Amani was injured during the attack while at his office in Beirut, suffering injuries to both eyes, his face, fingers, palms, chest, and legs. He lost part of his eyesight and sustained permanent physical complications.

The Foreign Ministry has requested the prosecution of all perpetrators, instigators, accomplices, and partners in the criminal act under Iran’s law on judicial protection for government employees and armed forces personnel, he added.

The Tehran prosecutor further noted that, according to investigations, the operation had been planned by Israeli operatives as early as a decade before it was carried out.

He said the pagers were manufactured in the occupied territories and sold to Hezbollah under the branding of a Taiwanese company through a shell company based in Hungary.

The explosions took place on September 17 and 18, 2024, in two separate waves across Lebanon, involving thousands of pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies. The attacks martyred dozens of people, including civilians and children, and seriously injured thousands of others, particularly in the eyes, hands, and face.

Meanwhile, Pirhussein Kolivand, head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, said Iran will continue pursuing legal action over attacks on civilian facilities during the war.
“We are regularly following up on the issue of attacks on civilian facilities, and last night I also spoke with an international lawyer so that we can pursue a complaint and the case privately,” Kolivand told reporters on Wednesday on the sidelines of a school reopening ceremony.
He said the International Committee of the Red Cross is expected to assist Iran in pursuing the matter, adding that other organizations will also cooperate.
Kolivand criticized the failure of international organizations to fulfill their expected roles, saying this will not deter Iran from pursuing the issue.
“This does not mean that we will remain indifferent. We will continue this path with all our determination, efforts, and capabilities,” he said.
Referring to his meetings with the Red Cross and the United Nations, Kolivand said he sought to highlight the plight of people who were harmed during the war.
“We must not back down. We must continue this path firmly and resolutely,” Kolivand said.
Commenting on U.S. threats and sanctions, he added, “The United States is always imposing sanctions, and its threats are a joke.”