I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait

Source: www.theguardian.com · Section: headlines · Bias: Center-Left · Published: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:27:57 GMT

It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by TehranPete Hegseth’s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game.Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on the battlefield, the self-styled “secretary of war” now proposes to mirror its notorious practice of enforcing the death penalty as a grand public spectacle. Continue reading...

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