Tehran regime kills innocent man ‘in attempt to show strength’

Pedram Madani is dead. Iran hanged the 41-year-old father of one on May 28 on charges of spying for Israel, a classic judicial fabrication that Tehran has wielded in the past to justify the execution of innocents in the hopes of deterring popular dissent. Yet the present geopolitical context may have added a fresh motive to the regime’s legal calculus. With protests still consuming the country and the economy reeling, nuclear negotiations between Washington and Tehran continue — and Israel stands...