Those who have embraced President Obama’s withdrawal from Iraq have repeatedly assured us that Iraq is strong enough to stand on its own, and that we need not fear that Iran will fill the vacuum.

While the news seems only to be in Farsi at this point, perhaps they might want to consider this story from Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency. It seems that Hedayat Darvishvand, the commander of a unit of Revolutionary Guards, has been killed in an explosion in Samarra, Iraq. Let’s not worry too much about what an IRGC commander is doing in an area from which the United States has pulled back. Perhaps he was just shopping for candy with which to celebrate the Eid?