HE RAN A WEBSITE THE IRANIAN REGIME DIDN’T LIKE. HE WAS EXECUTED FOR IT:

For years, Ruhollah Zam ran one of Iran’s most popular online news outlets, AmadNews, a website and channel on the messaging app Telegram that amassed millions of followers inside the Islamic Republic and in the Diaspora.

Its content was an amalgam of wildly hyperbolic claims, genuine news and leaks of information, as well as video footage showing anti-government protests, including those that erupted in the final days of 2017, drawing the attention of regime officials.

On Saturday morning, after he was lured from France, brought before a secretive security court in Iran and sentenced to die, Zam was abruptly executed after being convicted of the Islamic crime of “spreading corruption earth.”

He was 42.

The incoming Biden administration, eager to get back in bed with Iran, nods with pride.