In the past 36 hours, the world has changed. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran. Operation Epic Fury has birthed a new era in the Middle East. It is a moment full of both promise and peril. After the brutal dictator’s death, Iran has retaliated with drone and missile strikes across the region. U.S. and Israeli strikes…
The Iran Strikes—and the War to Come

Operation Epic Fury has birthed a new era in the Middle East. (Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Michael Doran, Roya Hakakian, and others on the death of Khamenei and what’s next.
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