Iran protests

Per the WSJ, Iran's rival Gulf states have largely avoided addressing the protests that have spread across Iran since late December, leaving thousands dead.

The speeches will not free people from prison. The condemnations will not reopen the Internet. The statements will not stop the bullets. Only decisive leadership can do that.

Alinejad described a grim ritual familiar to Iranians living abroad: zooming in on photographs of the dead, searching for the faces of family members. "This is deliberate cruelty," she said.

The foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Italy decried the Iranian regime's crackdown on protestors as "unbearable and inhumane," "brutal," and "absolutely unacceptable."

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Israel and the US might also consider a more modest but still historic opportunity to reduce the capabilities of Iran and Hezbollah, even if it doesn't topple the Islamic Republic regime.

While an estimated 2,000 people have been killed in anti-Islamic regime protests in recent weeks, Erfaneh Soltani is the first protester to be sentenced to execution.

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When Iranians themselves are beaten, imprisoned, and brutally murdered as they stand in the streets, they do not look to Brussels or Paris. They look to the two actors the regime itself fears most.

UK Business Secretary Peter Kyle said the British government conducted a review of the IRGC, but that the idea of proscribing it isn't appropriate for a foreign state organization.