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Thursday, May 21, 2026

The war in Iran – again – points to the strategic shortcomings of assassination as policy of foreign affairs

May 21, 2026
Brian O'Neill
The coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes at the outset of the war in Iran killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, along with other key regime figures. In doing so, the United States and Israel crossed what The New York Times and others described as “a new Rubicon”: the deliberate, overt killing of a head of state.