Forty-seven years on, reports of thousands of corpses of civilians slaughtered by Iran’s security forces have disturbed the world’s sleep. US President Donald Trump seems to have put off — for now — “hitting [Iran] very hard, where it hurts”. The former Shah’s exiled son, 65-year-old Reza Pahlavi, has declared himself ready to supplant Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who succeeded Khomeini as supreme leader upon the latter’s death in 1989 and is the author of the current carnage.