I am looking forward to the drumbeat of calls for the General Assembly to endorse the creation of a truly international Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Iran. #STCoA-I

As far as I know, the STCoA will not recognise functional immunity. If it did, there wouldn't be much of a tribunal...

(As an aside, I think it's wrong to say the G7 alone resisted permitting the STCoA to entirely disregard personal immunity. From what I know of the negotiations, the opposite is true: very few states in the negotiations thought deeming the tribunal "international" was a feasible option.)

That analysis presumes, of course, that the #STCoA cannot be considered an "international tribunal" for purposes of Arrest Warrant. But I think that's a safe assumption -- most of the states involved in creating it certainly seem to think it is will be internationalized, not international.

That said, I imagine a Russian suspect would argue that publicly releasing an indictment would make it more likely states would issue arrest warrants sua sponte -- at least those with universal jurisdiction over aggression. That would bring the #STCoA approach closer to transgressing Arrest Warrant.