Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

Cosmopolitics by Elise Labott

This is not the Wizard of Oz

The head of the snake is gone. What grows back is an open question

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Elise Labott
Mar 01, 2026
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Let’s start with what everyone is thinking: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s death, like those of Hassan Nasrallah, Muammar Gaddafi, and Saddam Hussein before him, was earned. Karma, eventually, is a bitch. The man presided over the murder of thousands of his own citizens, funded terrorism that killed Americans across decades, and built a regional empire of des…

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