{"id":28569,"date":"2026-05-18T16:41:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28569\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:41:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:41:52","slug":"gulf-gets-laser-guided-missiles-to-fight-drones-iran-executions-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/28569\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf gets laser-guided missiles to fight drones &#038; Iran executions soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Gulf gets laser-guided missiles to fight drones &amp; Iran executions soar\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUoWyMAOtJs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGulf gets laser-guided missiles to fight drones &#038; Iran executions soar<br \/>\n<br \/>\nExecutions have soared inside Iran, with new Amnesty data today showing more than 2,000 people were given the death penalty in 2025.  <\/p>\n<p>Roland Oliphant speaks to Iranian journalist in exile Maryam Mazrooei about the \u201cbloodthirsty\u201d regime\u2019s latest tactic to scare citizens into silence amid the war with the US and Israel. She also explains why the mood inside the country is increasingly dark amid a growing economic disaster, with mass layoffs and no internet.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the UK has fitted new laser-guided missiles to its Typhoon jets on patrol in the Gulf. Venetia Rainey talks to acting defence editor Tom Cotterill about how they have been designed to talk on Iranian Shahed drones and why they were developed so fast. <\/p>\n<p>Tom also talks about his recent trip to the Falklands, where locals dismissed rumours that the US may drop its backing for British sovereignty over the Islands as punishment for not joining Donald Trump\u2019s war against Iran. <\/p>\n<p>Highlights <\/p>\n<p>Gulf gets new laser-guided missiles to help smash Iranian drones<br \/>\n\u2018Bloodthirsty\u2019 Iran regime executions hit all-time high as economy freefalls<\/p>\n<p>CONTRIBUTORS:<br \/>\nVenetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey<br \/>\nRoland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant<br \/>\nTom Cotterill, acting defence editor @TomCotterillX<br \/>\nMaryam Mazrooie, journalist @MaryammazrooeiS<\/p>\n<p>CONTENT REFERENCED:<\/p>\n<p>Trump: There won\u2019t be anything left of Iran if it refuses peace deal<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/05\/17\/trump-wont-be-anything-left-of-iran-if-refuses-peace-deal\/<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon jets equipped with cheaper missiles to fend off Iranian attacks<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/05\/17\/typhoon-jets-new-missiles-iran-attacks\/<\/p>\n<p>Tom Cotterill: Trump is using us as a pawn, says Falklands chief<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/05\/10\/falkland-islands-trump-is-using-us-as-a-pawn\/<\/p>\n<p>David Blair: Iran\u2019s regime is confident of victory. It may be overplaying its hand<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/05\/17\/irans-regime-confident-of-victory-it-may-overplaying-hand\/<\/p>\n<p>Amnesty: Executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ewqnZX6lMU\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2026\/05\/executions-surge-highest-recorded-figure-44-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GLOBAL: Executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;GLOBAL: Executions surge to highest recorded figure in 44 years&#8221; &#8212; Amnesty International\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2026\/05\/executions-surge-highest-recorded-figure-44-years\/embed\/#?secret=R3fmPZzjJj#?secret=ewqnZX6lMU\" data-secret=\"ewqnZX6lMU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Producer: Peter Shevlin<br \/>\nExecutive Producers: Venetia Rainey &#038; Louisa Wells<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n<p>#Iran #IranExecutions #DeathPenalty #AmnestyInternational #MiddleEast #IranNews #IsraelIran #USIran #RolandOliphant #MaryamMazrooei #HumanRights #IranProtests #ShahedDrones #UKDefence #TyphoonJets #LaserGuidedMissiles #Falklands #DonaldTrump #Geopolitics #WorldNews #DefenceNews #BBCPodcast #CurrentAffairs #MilitaryNews #Podcast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gulf gets laser-guided missiles to fight drones &#038; Iran executions soar Executions have soared inside Iran, with new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[18326,9970,29790,7039,29792,395,38,19414,19413,345,5481,1806,3978,29794,29791,1637,1736,31,338,339,27844,2360,340,337,29795,29793,4925,341,1731,235],"class_list":["post-28569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-amnesty-international","tag-british-military","tag-death-penalty-iran","tag-donald-trump-iran","tag-executions-in-iran","tag-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-iran-executions","tag-iran-human-rights","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-protests","tag-iranian-regime","tag-israel-iran-conflict","tag-laser-guided-missiles","tag-maryam-mazrooei","tag-middle-east-news","tag-military-analysis","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-roland-oliphant","tag-shahed-drones","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-tom-cotterill","tag-typhoon-jets","tag-uk-defence","tag-uk-news","tag-us-iran-tensions","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}