Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s killing in a joint Israeli-American attack on Saturday marks geopolitical aggression of the sort the world has not seen in a long-long time. It is perhaps also the beginning of a new crest – difficult to say how long-lasting -- of military hostilities in the West Asian region. Severe economic ripple effects will perhaps follow, given its criticality to global energy supplies. Experts and commentators will continue to weigh-in on the specificities of the fault-lines involved and how they change from here, but it is important to keep in mind the overall state of...