With Assad out of the way, will Iran choose realpolitik?

During World War II, the butler of the British ambassador to Turkey was spying on the Allies. As a butler, he had access to the ambassador’s files and was able to uncover and copy top-secret information, including the Allies’ plans for D-Day. Fortunately, the Germans considered him unreliable and disregarded the information. 

We may not realize it at the moment, but sometimes a singular incident can have far-reaching effects, setting off a sequence of events no one could have foreseen.