Middle East’s future clouded by Iranian president’s death, war crimes warrants sought against Netanyahu, others

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It was a day of sombre press conferences, one in Tehran, the other in The Hague, destined to further cloud the future of the entire Middle East. Monday began with the announcement that Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi, whose helicopter crashed Sunday in the mountains of northern Iran, was dead, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and other officials. Even as that news was still rippling across the region, Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, took to the microphones to announce he was seeking the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant...