Iran announced the execution of a protester and could well signal the start of an even more violent phase of its crackdown.
to quash the protests sparked in September by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who was arrested by the morality police for insufficiently covering her hair. At the same time, Teheran has quietly increased attacks on its neighbors.
American intelligence and law enforcement have fortunately foiled plots on Trump’s former National Security Adviser John Bolton and New York-based American-Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad. Washington has also thwarted Iranian cyber-attacks on a children’s hospital, police departments, and American infrastructure. But U.S. officials expect such Iranian plots to increase.
Tehran’s aggression will not be stopped by a presidential speech nor by the administration’s existing sanctions on Iranian officials."Iranian officials could care less," said David Pollock, a Mideast expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who has focused recently on Iran’s deadly attacks on neighboring Kurds."Iranian officials and operatives don’t have American bank accounts and don’t want to travel here.
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