{"id":237180,"date":"2026-01-14T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237180\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T08:27:08","slug":"iran-latest-trump-warns-of-very-strong-action-if-iran-executes-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/237180\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran latest: Trump warns of &#8216;very strong action&#8217; if Iran executes protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian protester expected to be executed today, relative tells BBCpublished at 06:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>06:59 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Erfan Soltani\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/10bfe89c-9034-4c77-b930-58f264240639.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A relative of Iranian protester Erfan Soltani, who was detained by Iranian authorities last week, says he is expected be executed today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reports indicate that a death sentence has been handed down to Soltani, 26, after he was allegedly involved in protests near the Iranian capital Tehran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A relative told BBC Persian that Soltani was arrested on Thursday, the day when protests in Iran reached their peak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cIn an extremely rapid process, within just two days, the court issued a death sentence,&#8221; the relative said, adding the family was told he was due to be executed Wednesday, 14 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Awyar Shekhi, from the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights, said her teams &#8220;have never seen a case move so quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shekhi is due to speak to Today on BBC Radio 4 after 07:00 GMT. We will bring you the latest lines from that interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iranian protester expected to be executed today, relative tells BBCpublished at 06:59 GMT 06:59 GMT Image source, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-237180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}