Iran Executes Spy, US Funds States That Do The Same (Or Worse)
ABC News breathlessly reports Iran executed a person 'accused of spying for Israel.' The framing is clear: Iran is a rogue state, executing people on 'accusations.' What's conveniently left out by most mainstream outlets is that many US allies, including Israel, routinely engage in targeted killings and extrajudicial assassinations—often without any trial at all. Operation Wrath of God, for
instance, involved decades of such state-sanctioned killings. The difference? One gets a headline, the other gets billions in US military aid. While the US decries Iran's judicial process, it sends billions annually to regimes with equally questionable human rights records , which, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, can also be categorized as 'spy-hunting.' Perhaps
the concern isn't the execution itself, but *who* is doing the executing. How many 'rules-based order' countries execute foreign agents with drones or special forces, rather than trials?