Tehran Is Hanging Its Own Young Men. Any Deal With Iran Can't Pretend Otherwise.

Qatar is urging Washington to take a "good deal" over a perfect one. But a regime that executes protesters while it negotiates is telling America exactly how it keeps promises. Human rights belong on the table next to the centrifuges.

By Clara Hughes

While diplomats shuttle proposals between Doha, Tehran and Washington, the Islamic Republic is doing what it does best: killing its own people. Iran International reported this weekend that three men — Hassan Divband, Hamid Kazemi and Reza Zanganeh — had been executed in Karaj after the regime's courts convicted them of taking part in "operations" for Israel, the United States and "hostile groups." Their real offense, according to the judiciary's own account, was what it called attacks on public buildings and property during the protests of January 8 and 9. The state is now moving to seize the dead men's assets. They were not alone. In the northeastern city of Mashhad, more young protesters have been sentenced to death on the medieval charge of moharebeh — "waging