{"id":452476,"date":"2026-05-21T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/452476\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:59:10","slug":"iran-executes-two-people-under-security-charges-news-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/452476\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Executes Two People Under Security Charges, News Agency Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners' leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April. Credit:   Yiannis Kourtoglou\/Reuters\" alt=\"European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners' leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1601\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/738994.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3 x1huxd7x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners' leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April. Credit:   Yiannis Kourtoglou\/Reuters\" alt=\"European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners' leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April.\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1601\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/738994.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Close<\/p>\n<p>European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners&#8217; leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April. Credit:   Yiannis Kourtoglou\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p>European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during a summit of the European Union and regional partners&#8217; leaders in Nicosia, Cyprus, in April. Credit:   Yiannis Kourtoglou\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">EU Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa said he is &#8220;appalled by the treatment of flotilla members by Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir,&#8221; adding that, &#8220;This behavior is completely unacceptable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The EU Council is the European Union&#8217;s executive body, composed of the heads of state of the 27 EU member countries. Council representatives &#8220;call for their immediate release,&#8221; Costa wrote on X, referring to activists from the Gaza-bound flotilla currently held in Israel.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">On Wednesday, far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-security\/2026-05-20\/ty-article\/.premium\/ben-gvir-posts-video-of-police-dragging-detained-gaza-flotilla-activists\/0000019e-4520-d0ff-afbe-4760f9a70000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a video<\/a> showing flotilla activists bound, forced to kneel, and dragged across the floor, boasting that &#8220;this is how we welcomed the terror supporters.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close European Council President Ant\u00f3nio Costa (right) and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides (left) attend a press conference during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,54,50,6609,51,42,86,1031,9152,1513,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-452476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-flotilla","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452476","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=452476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}