Hear that? There are people wailing in the streets of the West – sodden with tears and outrage at the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.

Buried under rubble in the opening moments of the joint attack launched by Israel and the United States, Khamenei died as he lived – a cockroach scrounging around in the dirt of history.

The people of Iran are not mourning his departure.

Millions in Tehran have come onto the streets despite the danger to cheer. For the first time, groups of women are hounding morality police and forcing them away. The weight of Islamic theocratic rule is lifting and the rivers of misappropriated gold – much of it gifted by weak Western regimes to placate the ayatollahs – has run dry.

It is a dark day for Islamic terrorism across the world. Their central hub of security is burning.

A true Australian leader worthy of the Prime Ministership would have used this once in a century opportunity to pounce on the ASIO watchlist and ruthlessly tear apart, arrest, interrogate, and deport individuals of interest while there is no Iranian regime to defend them.

Albanese will never have a better moment to do what the people have asked of him and rid our nation of radical Islamic terror cells.

We will not see that happen, because those in charge of our country are more interested in photo opportunities at yesterday’s Mardi Gras than dismantling the matrix of blood and religious horror that terrorises the streets of our capital cities.

So, if the Iranians are celebrating, who is screeching in agony in the West, curled up and twitching like something that walked over Surface Spray?

The Western Left.

Activists, political figures, academics, and delusional useful idiots.

Thousands of them.

From Australia to America to the United Kingdom, the global left are vibrating with despair.

Every single person who took to social media, rage-typing about ‘illegal wars’, needs a reality check.

Iran has been waging a deliberate conflict against the West and its Middle Eastern neighbours for decades. It has launched this sanguinous battle not against military combatants, but against innocent Western people in their own countries. Against children at music concerts. People on the train going to work. Tourists at national icons. Christians in their churches. All while Iran plotted to craft a nuclear arsenal to upscale its bloodshed to brimstone.

The Western Left are crying for the human rights of a dictator who would gladly have them raped, tortured, and dismantled limb-by-limb in an underground prison.

A man who murdered tens of thousands of protesters and presided over a regime of absolute Islamic obedience that robbed Iranians of their religious and civic freedom.

Every ideological touchstone the Western Left champion is illegal in Iran and yet these left-wing combatants march beside a regime which uses them to manipulate Western governments. Don’t fight terrorism, or we’ll send another 10,000-strong student protest onto your streets… The Western Left have become the most pitiable creatures in human history – not only because they are gullible enough to be used in this way, but because they did not bother learning from history to see that they are merely the next iteration on a recycled tape.

The Australian people need to take a very serious and close look at the behaviour of left-wing entities today.

Those who cheered for Hamas. Those who made excuses for ISIS terrorists. Those who claim that Islamic terror is ‘a response’ to criticism. Those who walked holding Khamenei’s portrait over our bridge. Those who possess illegal flags belonging to Hezbollah and other terror regimes. Those who shout, Globalise the intifada! and demand the colony – our nation – fall. Those who pretend ISIS brides are victims of circumstance instead of willing supporters who burned their passports and joined the Islamic State.

We should look carefully at those who woke up this morning and put more effort protesting the fall of the bloodthirsty Khamenei and his Islamic Republic than they spent worrying about the rights of Australians during Covid.

Who do these people in the Western Left serve?

Australia?

Or do they serve the foreign flags and foreign leaders they cheer?

Do they fantasise about the destruction of our nation and if so, what would they build in its place?

Their heroes are our future if we keep indulging their reckless stupidity with polite nods.

If they are complaining about the revolution of Iran, which intends to free a democratic people from the grip of an Islamic theocracy, what do you imagine their plans are for the future of Australia?

If they don’t want the heart of Islamic terror to fall, how hard do you imagine they’ll fight to free Australia of Islamic terror networks, hate preachers, and radicalised teenagers?

It is no wonder they seek to water-down and expand the post-Bondi investigation to include irrelevant political corners that have nothing to do with an ASIO watchlist reported to exceed 10,000 individuals of interest.

Are these people – for which we pay a fortune in taxes to support – serving the interests of Australia?

Keep this in mind as you read the news this morning. On and on it goes, post after post, all the pearls clutched as if Khamenei was sitting around, minding his own business, heading up a utopian regime instead of deliberately spreading carnage through the world.

The notion that we should tread carefully around scary Islamic dictators was proven false. They like the silence. They grow more powerful with our aid blood money and humanitarian concessions. Khamenei, and others like him, manipulate Western desires for peace and the white guilt complex nurtured by toxic academics who failed at everything except victimhood.

Global security demanded that Khamenei die.

Soon, the Iranian people will be free to cast off the shackles of Islamic theocracy and build their society however they wish. And after they succeed, we can expect the Western Left to try and claim credit for an event they tried to prevent. When women burn their hijabs in the streets of Tehran, they will quietly scroll past the flames and find the next flag or hashtag to support.

The one thing we might observe is that Donald Trump has shifted war between states to a game of risk between leaders.

Whether it was Maduro or Khamenei, the United States is saying, We are coming for you, in particular…

The leaders of other nations will have noticed this dramatic break in protocol. Trump won’t meet the enemies of the West on the field of battle, he’ll knock on their door.

Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.