The Iranian founder of the murderous terror group Hezbollah died Monday from COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates.

Cleric Ali Akbar Mohtashamipour – no doubt to be venerated by someone as an "austere religious scholar" – supported the Islamic regime's takeover of Iran in 1979, formed connections to the violent Palestine Liberation Organization, and founded Hezbollah in Lebanon in the 1980s.

The organization has gone on to kill thousands, including hundreds of U.S. troops in a 1983 bombing in Beirut.

Mohtashamipour, who also denied the Holocaust, survived a "book bomb" that was reportedly designed by Israel to take the terror leader out, losing one of his hands from the attack.

He was 74 years old at the time of his death.

It's ironic. A violent jihadist who railed against Israel and the West for decades was taken down by a tiny virus that was potentially designed and leaked from a lab in communist China.

I don't wish death on anyone, but in this case, I'm willing to shrug my shoulders at a man who reaped what he sowed.