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The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait in Washington

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

police officers stand near a noose
Iranian police officers near the rope to be used to hang Muhammad Bijeh, in Pakdasht, Iran, on 16 March 2005. Photograph: Vahid Salemi/AP

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.

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