CNN Politics | Brett H. McGurk | Aug 30, 2026 Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A conventional wisdom has begun to settle over the war with Iran: Iran […]
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“FARNCE24 (AFP) | August 27,2026 Paris (France) (AFP) – Iran has executed over 500 people so far this year after a new surge in hangings in recent days, despite President Donald Trump urging the Islamic republic to halt executions, a rights group said on Thursday. Iran has executed at
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CT mirror | Jila Andalib | August 21, 2026 The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Then open. Then closed again. Confused? Welcome to 47 years of failed Western policy toward Iran. For 47 years, Western leaders have played a high-stakes game of trial and error with
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GENEVA – UN experts | August 6 ,2026 GENEVA – UN experts* today called on Iranian authorities to end the escalating arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, and arbitrary executions of ethnic minorities, particularly Kurdish and Baluch minorities. “Iran’s ethnic minorities must be able to live in safety and dignity, free from
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The United Nations News | August 5, 2026 The UN rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday over the sharp increase in executions and death sentences in Iran since the US-Israeli bombing campaign began in late February, warning that capital punishment is being used to intimidate the population and suppress dissent. “I
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New York Post | David Spector | Aug. 2, 2026 The streets of Iran are near a breaking point over public executions, economic collapse and a war that’s been raging on for more than five months, anti-regime figures in Tehran told The Post. “A revolution can happen any day now —
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By RedState Guest Editorial | Carla Sands | July 29, 2026 After 47 years in power, Iran’s authoritarian Islamic theocracy is on the verge of complete collapse. For nearly five decades, the regime has been a source of terror and instability, first threatening its own people with systematic repression and the denial of
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The Washington Examiner | By Majid Rafizadeh | July24,2026 Iran’s judiciary announced on Wednesday that it had executed 26-year-old Mehdi Khanaki, a law graduate accused of active participation in the nationwide January 2026 uprising and membership in what the authorities described as a “terrorist group.” The regime’s Mizan news agency did not
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By Reuters | July 22, 2026 DUBAI, July 22 (Reuters) – Iran executed a man on charges linked to nationwide protests in January, an opposition group and the Iranian judiciary’s official Mizan news agency reported on Wednesday. Mizan identified the man as Mehdi Khaneki and said he was executed for “operational actions” that benefited Israel, the
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U.K. authorities have linked the IRGC and its proxies to a wave of violent plots on British soil The Washington Post | By Greg Miller | July 13, 2026 The United Kingdom will declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group and place sanctions on the elite paramilitary organization that is expanding control of
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