Khamenei Is Dead, Theocracy Lives

When the Enemy of Your Enemy Becomes Your Strongman

The morning after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed, thousands of mourners gathered in Tehran’s Enghelab Square and towns throughout Iran, Iraq, India, and Lebanon. In Pakistan, protesters stormed the U.S. consulate, leaving at least 21 people dead. There’s a peculiar sadness in public tears for a theocratic tyrant. A conditioned lamentation on which decade…