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Why a public execution will bring the US closer to Iranian values

Robert Tait in Washington · The Guardian · World
Published 10 Oct 2026, 6:16 am·3 h ago·1 min read
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It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran Pete 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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