Now this is a surprise. What is motivating the theocrats to do something like this is a little hard to understand. While the people they allege are war criminals are certainly guilty, to what advantage is it for Iran act so aggressively (even if this move is nothing more than political theater)? And why now? I don't have the answer but I imagine it has something to do with their domestic politics.
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