Iran’s public hanging of teen dissidents highlights its regime’s savagery yet again

Like a trapped animal, Iran is lashing out, executing teenagers in public for “waging war against God” to terrify its restive people, and bombing its neighbors to convince them to push the United States and Israel to end the war.

These are not the actions of a sane, confident government; it’s yet more proof of its utter desperation.

Torturing, then publicly hanging, Saleh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old wrestling champ, and executing two others is how the regime is now resorting to open savagery to retain power, should any brave Iranian civilians consider taking to the streets.

The women of the Iranian national soccer team who took a stand for freedom in the Asian Cup matches and dared to seek asylum were forced to return to Iran under threat of violence to their families.

This is the mark of a truly sick leadership: a fascistic cult of gangsters that holds a gun to the heads of its own children and extorts compliance from its national sports heroes.

Such cruelty follows the regime’s nationwide massacre of protesters, when the brutal mullahs killed tens of thousands of their own citizens in the streets.

Iran’s madness is also swinging outward, as it bombs Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar and Oman.

The Saudi government is contemplating a military response. Iran may achieve the impossible: aligning Jerusalem and Riyadh in a military alliance against a common enemy.

The public executions should have the civilized world horrified and begging for the regime’s elimination. Yet here at home, Mayor Zohran Mamdani — who claims to care about the oppressed (particularly Muslims) and who has had plenty to say about Israel — is virtually mum on the war, except, of course, to criticize the United States.

After the first strikes in the war, he assured Iranian-Americans that he would keep them “safe.” He seemed unaware that most Persian New Yorkers are ecstatic that the United States went to war against the loathed regime.

And within the first few days, Mamdani did make some boilerplate remarks deploring the regime’s “brutality,” but quickly pivoted to US errors in the region.

Asked specifically about his reaction to the latest barbarism, Mamdani’s office pointed us to his Thursday statement celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in which he reiterated his “opposition to this war” — but said nothing about the ongoing repression.

He managed to squeeze in criticism of Israel during a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast, and a nod to the plight of the Palestinians during his Thursday night Eid comments.

But outrage over the public assassination of a teen dissident? Crickets.

Fortunately, the targets of Mamdani’s frequent barbs — President Donald Trump and the Jewish state — do care about Iran’s Muslim civilians.

The great hope for them is that the war leads to the regime’s collapse, so their oppression can finally end.