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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

50 years ago, in Feb 1976, President #GeraldFord signed Executive Order 11905, which directed that “no employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political #assassination.” There should be no tears…for #Khamenei, who for 4 decades oversaw a repressive state with terroristic tentacles that extended throughout the world. But it is worth looking at why presidents of both political parties have long been wary of the #StateSponsoredMurder of foreign leaders.

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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

#GiftArticle

#Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of #Assassination
Killing anyone without a trial, let alone a foreign leader, involves a #moral choice.
[& Trump has no morals.]

On Saturday, the #US, in a joint op with #Israel, killed #Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei. For the first time in the postwar era, DC has succeeded in killing a foreign leader—shattering a precedent that had been sustained for decades by a mix of moral, political, & logistical concerns.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/khamenei-assassination-precedent/686215/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQWCisA23rxrHDj14QNX3Go

The Atlantic

Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination

Killing anyone without a trial, let alone a foreign leader, involves a moral choice.
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@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 19 hours ago

50 years ago, in Feb 1976, President #GeraldFord signed Executive Order 11905, which directed that “no employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political #assassination.” There should be no tears…for #Khamenei, who for 4 decades oversaw a repressive state with terroristic tentacles that extended throughout the world. But it is worth looking at why presidents of both political parties have long been wary of the #StateSponsoredMurder of foreign leaders.

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