Unable to Accept Defeat, Donald Trump Presses On in Iran

The symbolism was hard to miss. Tens of millions of people on the streets in cities across Iran and Iraq trying to catch a sight of Ali Khamenei’s coffin during his weeklong funeral. Khamenei had been Iran’s supreme leader for almost four decades until his February 28 assassination by Israel on the first day of the US-led war. In the run-up to America’s and Israel’s war on Iran, Donald Trump, sounding very much like George W. Bush, suggested that his bombing campaign would be welcomed by the…