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:
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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 least 30
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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 the regime in
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GENEVA – UN experts | 06 August 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,
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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 — people want revenge,” a
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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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