The death of the medieval theocratic dictator of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei — a diabolical fanatic who pursued nuclear weapons — is a moment of celebration that after 47 years of internal tyranny and oppression and external terrorism and war, freedom may finally be at hand for the people of Iran and peace for their Mideast neighbors, Arabs and Israelis.

Khamenei’s end came under Israeli bombs, which along with U.S. munitions, have been pummeling the regime’s leadership, military and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but his death was his own doing.

After the 12-day war in June when the U.S. and Israel laid waste to Iran’s air defenses, missile systems and nuclear weapons infrastructure, Khamenei had an........

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