Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics: US
The Iranian regime sentenced a 29-year-old singer to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab, even as the Trump administration claimed the regime had become more moderate.
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Scarborough spells out the fundamental deadlock: Iran has drawn a hard red line on uranium enrichment; Trump declared the war was fought precisely to prevent Iran from ever having a nuclear weapon; and Israel will never allow the issue to drop while enrichment continues. Republicans in Congress, he predicts, won't let it go either. The result is a strategic cul-de-sac. Kay sharpens the irony: JD Vance is simultaneously releasing a book about his deep Catholic faith and suggesting that the Iranian regime — which has just sentenced a 29-year-old singer to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab, escalated persecution of minorities, and fast-tracked political prisoners to execution — is somehow more moderate and reasonable. The cognitive dissonance, she argues, is staggering. The Trump administration's claim that this is now a different, more normal Iran is exposed as fiction by the regime's own actions.
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