Hell just got a bit more crowded

Ali Khamenei is dead.

The Iranian regime's "supreme leader" - who presided over a decades-long campaign of murder and brutality against his own people, and sponsored acts of terror around the world - has been eliminated, fittingly, by an Israeli.

War is always easy to start, and harder to end. Yes. But this war, at least, is starting with an historic victory over hate.

We shouldn't be naïve, of course. While their "supreme leader" may be gone,the Iranian Islamic dictatorship isn't. Far from it. The IRGC is made up of nearly 200,000 military personnel who are as homicidal as Khamenei was. They haven't laid down their arms yet.

And Iran's ability to wage asymmetric warfare - the military analysts' sterile way of describing acts of terror and poisonous propaganda in which Iran is without equal - hasn't ended, either. In my book The Hidden Hand, out in ebook now and hardcover soon, I write about Khamenei and that grim reality - and their ultimate goal.

"...examples of Iran’s involvement—in the protests, in

the attacks, in the campaigns of intimidation and discord—

became more widely known in early 2024. But few of the Iran-

affiliated operations were as big, or as successful, as the global

shut-down effort that took place on April 15.

Indications that something big would be happening that day

had leaked out just a few weeks earlier. And immediately after

the April 15 shut-downs, Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, also

openly encouraged the global anti-Israel protests. Khamenei, the

Grand Ayatollah of Iran and previously the country’s president,

posted in English on X alongside videos of Western student

protestors: “See what is happening in the world. In Western

countries, in England and France, and in states across the U.S.

itself, people are coming out in huge numbers to chant slogans

against Israel and America. U.S. and Israel’s reputation has been

ruined. They truly have no solution."

In June 2024, as the student encampments were spreading

across North America and Europe, Iranian proxy Hezbollah also

confirmed that support was flowing to Western students.

Hezbollah legislator Mohammad Raad appeared on Russia Today

and said, “I believe we should rely on the ability of Arabs and

Muslims to invest in the changes we are witnessing, specifically

the Western students in the demonstrations in the West. There

are Arab students who are demonstrating in the West, and this

is something we can understand. But the Western students who

are demonstrating in support of Palestine—we rely on our abil-

ity to invest in this positive activity into the future...We

should invest in the students.

“We need to enter the heart of Western societies.”