Execution of Iranian protestor may kick off even more violent regime crackdown
Fox News
Iran announced the execution of a protester and could well signal the start of an even more violent phase of its crackdown.
While Washington has sanctioned individual Iranians tied to the regime’s repression and criticized the Iranian government’s "brutal" campaign of violence and intimidation, President Biden has yet to condemn the regime in a major speech or officially suspend his now stalled efforts to negotiate a return to the 2015 agreement aimed at stopping Iran from building a nuclear bomb.
His only direct support for the Iranian protesters was an off-the-cuff assertion that Washington was going to "free Iran," a gaffe that was quickly walked back by administration officials. Nevertheless, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi used it to accuse the U.S. of trying to foment regime change and blame the most serious internal protests in decades on American and Israel meddling.