India, March 12 -- The world is hurtling toward a geopolitical abyss, and Iran has become the latest arena of a reckless and deeply misguided experiment in decapitation and coercion. War was not a surprise; it was foreseen. The assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the combined machinations of U.S. and Israeli forces is being hailed in some quarters as a surgical strike against tyranny. In reality, it is the latest episode in a playbook as old as the Iran-Iraq War itself, yet dressed in 21st-century technologies and executive hubris. Trump's decapitation project is neither novel nor subtle; it continues a century of covert interventions, from the CIA's orchestration of the 1953 coup against Mossadegh to the entanglemen...