{"id":399946,"date":"2026-01-31T03:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:49:09","slug":"trump-says-iran-wants-a-deal-rather-than-face-military-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/399946\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran wants a deal rather than face military action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cly5pd459gko\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warning regarding a nuclear deal on Wednesday<\/a> came after he had promised Washington would intervene to help those involved in a brutal crackdown on protests in the country earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He had said help was &#8220;on the way&#8221;, before saying he had been told the execution of demonstrators had stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Thursday, he said he had told Iran that it had to do two things to avoid military action: &#8220;Number one, no nuclear. And number two, stop killing protesters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said it had confirmed the killing of more than 6,300 people, including more than 5,900 protesters, since the unrest began at the end of December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said it was also investigating another 17,000 reported deaths received despite an internet shutdown after nearly three weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another group, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR), has warned the final toll could exceed 25,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s warning regarding a nuclear deal on Wednesday came after he had promised Washington would intervene to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-399946","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}