Haaretz: ‘Defense Minister Israel Katz said, "I have just been updated by the IDF chief that Larijani and the head of the Basij were killed overnight and have joined Khamenei, the architect of the destruction program, and all the eliminated leaders of the 'axis of evil' in the depths of hell."’

The defense minister as theologian.

‘After the assassination of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Larijani, 67, came to be seen as the most powerful figure in Iran, holding ultimate authority over national security and foreign policy.

Born in Iraq, he is trained as a mathematician and is an expert in Western philosophy, having written his doctoral dissertation at the University of Tehran on the mathematical philosophy of Immanuel Kant.’

Another Kantian rotting in the depths of hell?

We also know, by the way, that you can kill leader after leader, but the organization (or the system) will survive. See Hamas.

(a sf 2082)