Irans missle strike was a dud and its clear the mad mullahs are losing the war

So now we know it is possible for something to be both horrific and farcical.The known death toll of the wave of missiles fired by Iran into Israel yesterday is as follows: Israelis 0, Palestinians 1. Yes, the Islamic Republic, in its preening, violent display of solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon against the Great Satan of the Jewish state, laid waste to just one life.

That of a 37-year-old laborer from Gaza who’d been living near Jericho in the West Bank, brutally slain by the falling shrapnel from one of Iran’s missiles. The Israelophobes of social media who salivated over Iran’s attack were cheering a military operation that killed yet another Gazan.You couldn’t make it up. Of course, the merciful lack of Israeli fatalities should not detract from the fact that that was clearly Iran’s aim: to maim and kill the Jews of this nation that it hates above all others.

When you fire 180 ballistic missiles at a state, with little advance warning, you know, and in Iran’s case hope, that death may very well ensue. That it didn’t, that only one, poor Palestinian perished under Iran’s rockets, is a testament to the extraordinarily high value Israel places on the lives of its citizens. Its Iron Dome intercepted much of Iran’s lethal arsenal, while its vast network of bomb shelters shielded civilians from the Iranian terror.It would appear that the Jewish desire to survive prevailed over the mullahs’ urge to kill. And yet even as we grapple with the seriousness of what Iran did, with the criminality of its onslaught, it is important to clock Iran’s weaknesses, too. Are we witnessing the death rattle of Iranian tyranny? It is impossible to overstate the size of the blow Iran has experienced this past week, and this past year.The ruthless theocracy’s entire proxy strategy, its use of Islamist armies like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis to shore up its influence to its west, lies virtually in tatters.

For now, at least. Hamas is boxed in, s...