IRAN EMBOLDENED: NEW FIGHTER JETS, EXECUTIONS, REAFFIRMED SUPPORT FOR ASSAD

◼ Iran is set to receive its first batch of oil money from a $4.2 billion pot this week, according to its chief nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi. - RAHEEM KASSAM/Breitbart

The news is quite evidently nothing to celebrate, and the capitulation by the U.S. State Department and the European Union towards Hassan Rouhani and his country's nuclear ambitions is already heralding a new era of Iranian fortitude.

...Just a few days ago, the Iranian-Arab poet Hashem Shaabani and the human rights activist Hadi Rashedi were executed for "enmity against God".

These hangings were ordered by Rouhani, who may be targeting the Arab-speaking Ahwazi population in the southwest of Iran. Regional expert Benjamin Weinthal has written that Rouhani is presiding over an "execution spree", and United Nations experts have reported that "at least 40 persons have been reportedly hanged in the first two weeks of January".

So the Iranian regime is now set to receive previously untouchable funds, bolstering its previously precarious economic situation. The Iranian military flexes the muscles it wants us to believe it has. And all the while, hundreds of anti-regime activists and minorities are being mercilessly targeted and executed.