As I sat down to write this piece, pictures of a handsome young man appeared on social media with a noose on his chest where a medal should have been. His name was Saleh Mohammadi,  he was nineteen years old and had won international prizes for his country in wrestling. He was executed by Iran’s despotic, merciless regime last week for publicly protesting their wicked deeds. His execution reminded me why I celebrated the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and posted on ‘X’ that when evil men are killed, the world’s shadows become a little less dark for a moment.

My post evoked angry reactions from Muslim friends who argued that no matter how awful a regime, it should not be changed by military intervention from another country. I reminded them that thousands of Iranians had been shot dead in the streets earlier this year because they dared to defy the Islamist tyrants who have kept an iron grip on Iran for half a century. In democracies, angry protests can bring regime change. Not in theocracies when the rulers claim that Allah is on their team. I continue to believe that the world is a better place without the Ayatollah.

Now let’s talk about the war. It is not going well for the side that I believe India as a democracy should support. The United States and Israel have the most competent intelligence agencies in the world........

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