#iran : #domesticpolicy / #repression / #opposition / #execution / #deathpenalty

„Abolhassan Montazer and Vahid Baniamerian have been hanged after Iran’s Supreme Court upheld their sentences.“

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/4/iran-executes-suspected-members-of-dissident-group-amid-us-israel-war

See also:

„Iran: Seven protesters and dissidents at risk of imminent execution after four men arbitrarily executed in secret within 24 hours“
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/iran-seven-protesters-and-dissidents-at-risk-of-imminent-execution-after-four-men-arbitrarily-executed-in-secret-within-24-hours/

Trump/GOP domestic policy clarified.

"It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”

The words above are from Trump.

Trump/GOP domestic policy:
- the Federal government has no responsibility for individual and family benefit programs
- the States alone are responsible for individual and family benefit programs
- taxes are for defense and security spending only

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-sentence-that-should-sink-donald-trumps-presidency_n_69cea133e4b0d214cc70659a?origin=home-latest-news-unit

#Politics #Trump #GOP #DomesticPolicy #Defense

#israel #palestine : #domesticpolicy / #opt / #legislation / #deathpenalty / #ngo / #amnestyinternational

„Israeli authorities must urgently repeal legislative amendments expanding Israel’s use of the death penalty, adopted today with a majority of 62 Knesset members, said Amnesty international.“

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/israel-opt-newly-adopted-death-penalty-law-must-be-repealed/

To borrow from Senator Chris Murphy’s comment on Trump

“This is the most incompetent, incoherent war[/economic, foreign, and domestic policy/administration] America has fought[/enacted] in the last 100[/250] years, and that’s saying a lot,” Murphy said, with his comments at the Capitol aired on CNN’s NewsNight on Thursday.

There, now I can take Alie out for her morning walk.

#Politics #Trump #GOP #IranWar #PeteHegseth #ChrisMurphy #Economics #ForeignPolicy #DomesticPolicy

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #government / #domesticpolicy / #protest / #analysis

„To understand the regime the US now seeks to obliterate, we have to return to the political and economic #convulsions that produced last January’s #uprising.“

https://portside.org/2026-03-08/iran-transformed

#usa #israel #iran : #warofaggression / #domesticpolicy

„[P]roblems that are … existential for Israel — its growing international #isolation, its #braindrain & economic woes, its tremendous domestic #polarization, its creeping annexation of the West#Bank, #Gaza’s instability, #Hamas’s future — all sit on the back burner. Victory over Iran would no doubt transform the country’s security prospects (…) But it will not be enough to mend the country’s deepest #divisions.“

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-after-iran-war

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #truce / #domesticpolicy / #uspeaceplan / #objections / #annexation

»According to Smotrich, himself a settler in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the Israeli prime minister should instead “establish a military government there, to encourage immigration and #settlement, and in this way to ensure Israel’s security for many years”.«

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/18/israel-far-right-ministers-reject-us-backed-postwar-gaza-panel

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #democracy / #government / #domesticpolicy / #settlers / #violence / #repression / #ngo / #civilsociety

https://verfassungsblog.de/israel-after-the-ceasefire/