At the beginning of act 5, as he prepares at last to kill Cassio if Roderigo fails, Iago tells himself reasons like an irresolute man.
But this is impossible for his character.
And he has already revealed his motives to the audience, long since.
Desdemona's death scene is ridiculous.
A strangled woman suddenly bursts out with loud complaints and then dies?
What, this time at last for the last time?
And then even Roderigo returns from the dead to denounce Iago.
How did Iago think for a moment to get away with it all, in the end?
Caught with his murdered wife in his bed, the Moor confesses immediately and lays it all at Iago's feet, Iago proved to him his wife betrayed him with Cassio.
And that's it for this evil genius of deceit, since nobody believes him for an instant.
Only the Moor believed him even that long.
At the play's end he awaits death by torture at the hands of Cassio.
Reading Othello.
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