“Everyone has abandoned us and now Iran has, too.” Other Shias, still struggling to digest the death of the man many knew simply as “Sayyid” or “Master”, hinted at deeper and darker betrayal.

Iran’s supreme leader has said the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah "will not go unavenged", a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei announced five days of mourning in Iran in response to what he called the "martyrdom of the great Nasrallah",

A succession of Israeli strikes have reset the military calculus in the Middle East, but it remains just as dangerous.