A month and a half has passed since joint U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran began with the stated goal of preventing the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism from developing nuclear weapons. Iran’s military has been decimated and its nuclear program has been set back years, or possibly even decades, according to some estimates. Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, the Islamic cleric who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly four decades, is dead after being killed in an airstrike.