The end of Iran’s illusions

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves during the 36th anniversary of the death of the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, at Khomeini’s shrine in southern Tehran on June 4. © Reuters

Dave Sharma is a Liberal senator for New South Wales and former Australian ambassador to Israel.

Massive strikes by the U.S. have inflicted severe damage on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and left the regime — already weak and isolated — reeling.