Iran’s Supreme Leader has been granted his supposed heart’s desire, killed by the Great Satan at the age of 86. “Sometimes I imagine myself dying from an accident or maybe a fever,” said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in one sermon repeated on state television after his assassination. “And my heart becomes so filled with sadness that the chance of competing for paradise will be taken away from me that way.” So he must be happy now, after being “martyred” along with family members in Saturday’s air strikes on his official compound.

Forgive my sarcasm. But few people will be surprised that this cruel bigot’s life ended violently after almost four decades of hellish rule over his citizens. And no decent person should mourn the death of a despot who oversaw the slaughter, torture and jailing of thousands of Iranians who dared so courageously to fight for freedom.

Khamenei died in the first wave of attacks by the United States and Israel that mark both a continuation of the war started over 12 days last June – when the White House falsely claimed to have “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities – and the culmination of almost half a century of enmity between Tehran and Washington.

So the kaleidoscope gets shaken again in a bid to reshape the world. “One of the most evil people in History is dead,” declared Donald Trump with typical overstatement, adding that his onslaught against Iran, and killing of their Supreme Leader, delivers “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country”.

The US and Israel have set regime change as their target, hoping to inflict sufficient wounds for a successful........

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