And this weekend, the United States and Israel crossed a line that I believe will echo through history. In a coordinated strike on Tehran, they assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They killed him, members of his family and, according to initial reports, dozens of other civilians in the process. This is nothing less than a brazen act of state terrorism designed to decapitate a sovereign nation’s leadership and plunge the region into chaos. And now, as the smoke rises over Tehran, the Western media machine is whirring into action, performing its familiar, dutiful role. The narrative is already being crafted: that Iranians are celebrating, that the people are rising up to greet their ‘liberators’, that this assassination is the opening act of a long-awaited revolution. But it is a lie. A dangerous, manipulative, and deeply cynical lie.