As Europe signs deals with Iran, protestors decry reception for ‘Executioner of Freedom’

As Europe signs deals with Iran, protestors decry reception for ‘Executioner of Freedom’

(CNSNews.com) – Thousands of Iranians and others demonstrated in Paris Thursday to protest a visit by Iranian President Hasan Rouhani, angered by the warm reception given to the leader of a regime that suppresses dissent and carries out more executions than any country other than China.

Graphically highlighting the execution issue, a topless protestor from the controversial women's activist group Femen dangled by rope from a bridge in a mock hanging, with an Iranian flag painted on her torso.

Rubio, Cruz at GOP debate: Rebuild our degraded military, crush ISIS
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Rubio, Cruz at GOP debate: Rebuild our degraded military, crush ISIS

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(CNSNews.com) – There was little new or unexpected on foreign policy in Thursday night's Trump-less GOP presidential debate, but the two candidates who vied for the most talk time, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, both argued strongly for the need to rebuild a shrinking U.S. military in order to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

The Fox News debate in Des Moines, Iowa came two weeks after President Obama, in a State of the Union dig at Republican critics, scoffed at "all the rhetoric you hear about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker."

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