As I write, the Washington Post is carrying an obituary about the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – or maybe it is about Santa Claus? You tell me. “With his bushy white beard and easy smile,” the Democracy Dies in Darkness paper told its readers,  “Ayatollah Khamenei cut a more avuncular figure in public than his perpetually scowling but much more revered mentor [Khomenei], and he was known to be fond of Persian poetry and classic western novels, especially Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables… Some Iranians who knew Ayatollah Khamenei before he became supreme leader described him as a ‘closet moderate.’” Did they now? Many other Iranians, some say about 250,000, did not have a chance to describe him at all because they were murdered on his orders. “Les Misérables,” indeed. 

Although the world is mesmerized by Iran, the wheels of justice in the United States continue their slow but meticulous revolutions

Although the world is mesmerized by Iran, the wheels of justice in the United States continue their slow but meticulous revolutions

Mere days after Israel and the United States commenced their attack against the Islamist regime in Iran, the internet – which means the world – has room for no other news. Here and there one discovers tiny little squeaks of opposition to the strikes from the usual anti-Trump mouthpieces – AOC, Zohran Mamdani, Elizabeth Warren, the UN – but those “insects of the hour” with their “importunate chink” (thank you, Edmund Burke) are completely........

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