{"id":79758,"date":"2026-10-09T14:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/i-saw-iran-execute-a-man-in-public-is-this-what-the-us-wants-robert-tait\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T14:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:56:42","slug":"i-saw-iran-execute-a-man-in-public-is-this-what-the-us-wants-robert-tait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/i-saw-iran-execute-a-man-in-public-is-this-what-the-us-wants-robert-tait\/","title":{"rendered":"I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hegseth\u2019s plans to stage a public execution resemble a grotesque Iran-imitation game.<\/p>\n<p>Having failed over the past seven months to defeat the Tehran regime on the battlefield, the self-styled \u201csecretary of war\u201d now proposes to mirror its notorious practice of enforcing the death penalty as a grand public spectacle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/09\/fort-hood-public-execution-us-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is odd for the US defense secretary to be laying the groundwork for an event that could be organized by Tehran Pete Hegseth\u2019s 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 \u201csecretary of war\u201d &#8230; <a title=\"I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/i-saw-iran-execute-a-man-in-public-is-this-what-the-us-wants-robert-tait\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about I saw Iran execute a man in public. Is this what the US wants? | Robert Tait\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}