Donald Trump said he was “disappointed” by Iran’s choice of Mojtaba Khamenei as the country’s new supreme leader. The remark was vintage Trump: blunt, theatrical and heavy with the assumption that Washington still has the right to sit in judgement over the inner life of other nations. Yet the more revealing story lies elsewhere. Iran did not pause for American approval. It did not wait for a signal from Washington. Under wartime pressure, it made its decision and moved on. That is not a minor detail. It is the point. There is a habit in Western political language, especially when it comes to countries that refuse to bend, of treating sovereignty as something conditional. Allies may exercise it freely. Rivals […]
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