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

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…

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