With Ayatollah Khamenei now gone, if Israel and Trump thought Iran would roll over they have no idea what's coming next. Right, so Ayatollah Khamenei’s dead. And that’s not just another incident in a region that’s been burning for decades. It’s the break of a long-standing, carefully maintained fiction: that the Gulf can host US power projection and still remain a neutral, insulated commercial space. It’s not just that the leader is gone, it’s what follows next. And what follows next? A massive escalation. Iran isn’t going to turn the other cheek, nor are they like Venezuela in that they’ll apparently roll over. That’s no how this works, that’s not the mindset, for all the decades of Western and Zionist occupation and presence in the Middle East, they remain as utterly clueless as ever about the people of the region. With their leader gone, all b ...