{"id":415127,"date":"2026-01-15T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415127\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:57:11","slug":"iran-crisis-explained-what-we-know-so-far-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/415127\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran crisis explained: what we know so far | Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran reopened its airspace at 0300 GMT on Thursday after a near-five-hour closure amid concerns about possible military action between the US and Iran that forced airlines to cancel, reroute or delay some flights.<\/p>\n

In contrast to indications of an imminent US strike on Iran, Donald Trump<\/a> said on Wednesday he had been told \u201con good authority\u201d that plans for executions in Iran have stopped<\/a>. He added: \u201cThere\u2019s no plan for executions, or an execution, or executions \u2013 so I\u2019ve been told that on good authority.\u201d Earlier, reports suggested the US president had decided on military action but it was unclear what form it might take. On Wednesday night, Trump said: \u201cWe\u2019re going to watch and see what the process is,\u201d adding that he\u2019s been given \u201ca very good statement by people that are aware of what\u2019s going on\u201d.<\/p>\n

Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told Fox News \u201cthere is no plan\u201d by Iran<\/a> to execute people in retaliation for the anti-government protests. \u201cHanging is out of the question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The family of Erfan Soltani, the first Iranian protester sentenced to death since the current unrest began, have been told his execution has been postponed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The US requested an emergency meeting of the UN security council on Iran on Thursday afternoon, a council diplomat said.<\/p>\n

Some US and UK personnel have been evacuated as a precaution from sites in the Middle East. The British embassy in Tehran has also been temporarily closed.<\/p>\n

India, Spain, Italy and Poland advised their citizens to leave Iran. It follows a call by the US urging its citizens to leave Iran, suggesting land routes to Turkey or Armenia.<\/p>\n

Araghchi insisted the situation was \u201cunder control,\u201d and urged the US to engage in diplomacy. \u201cNow there\u2019s calm. We have everything under control, and let\u2019s hope that wisdom prevails and we don\u2019t end up in a situation of high tension that would be catastrophic for everyone,\u201d Araghchi said.<\/p>\n

The death toll in Iran from the regime\u2019s crackdown stands at 2,571 people, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists news agency (HRANA). More than 18,100 have been arrested, it said.<\/p>\n

Foreign ministers from the G7 group said they were \u201cprepared to impose additional restrictive measures\u201d on Iran over its handling of the protests, and the \u201cdeliberate use of violence, the killing of protesters, arbitrary detention and intimidation tactics\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran reopened its airspace at 0300 GMT on Thursday after a near-five-hour closure amid concerns about possible military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-415127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}