Midnight for mullahs

“No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight,” boasted U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to the people of Iran shortly after unleashing a joint attack that may have finally ended the theocratic nightmare that has been their miserable fate since 1979.

He was right: For nearly half a century, the Iranian clerics who ruled the country with its morality police and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps did everything imaginable to deserve the retaliatory fury of the United States. Yet aside from last summer’s 12-day war, which degraded Iran’s nuclear capabilities and led to the a...