While the Iranian regime organizes pharaonic funeral ceremonies for Ayatollah Khamenei, the reality on the ground tells a very different story: a nation brought to its knees, crushed by a collapsing economy and relentless repression. A Mourning Imposed as Propaganda The celebrations taking place across Iran for days—from Tehran to Qom and as far as Najaf and Karbala—represent a cruel paradox. In one of the darkest chapters of Iranian history, marked by galloping inflation, widespread poverty, and the still-open wounds of the recent conflict—which left behind damaged cities, an unstable power grid, paralyzed trade routes, broken supply chains, and a productive system strangled by the effects of war—the regime has chosen to allocate colossal budgets for the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on February 28th. As Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has pointed out, the question haunting the people is not where the former Supreme Leader will be laid to rest but the exorb...
Six states have already enacted legislation making child rapists eligible for execution As reports of sex crimes against children continue to rise across the state—including within government schools—Texans are recommending harsher penalties for child sexual predators. Some are ready to consider the harshest penalty for the worst offenders: death. Six states have already enacted laws making child rapists eligible for the death penalty in certain circumstances: Florida, Tennessee, Idaho, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Mississippi.