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I think the first thing here is to define what we mean by "war crimes". Are those crimes by US law? By Iranian law? By the opinion of some pompous gasbags in UN that have zero legal authority but a lot of ego? By some bilateral or multilateral treaty that US signed and have not currently denounced? Do we mean it in any legal sense or in the sense of "there should be a law against it, dammit!"? I think without finding a mutually agreeable set of definitions the argument has no sense. Of course Iranians think it's a great crime bombing their stuff, who wouldn't? I am sure US military thinks its well within their authority to bomb shit in Iran, especially given Iran is a country which is actively hostile to the US and the US command chain authorized them to bomb the shit out of them. If you want to prefer one of those positions over the other, you need to establish the grounds why.
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