New Delhi, March 2 -- Iranian state television has confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint United States-Israeli strikes, declaring a 40-day national mourning period. What began as claims from Washington and Tel Aviv has now been acknowledged by Tehran itself. This was not a battlefield exchange. It was not a defensive intercept. It was the targeted killing of the highest political authority of a sovereign state. With this strike, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have crossed a threshold that even the most assertive post-9/11 doctrines approached cautiously: the overt assassination of a rival state's central leadership figure. The question now is not outrage. It is consequence. Can the architects of thi...