{"id":206965,"date":"2026-04-23T06:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:53:22","slug":"trump-says-iran-wont-execute-8-women-after-he-pleaded-for-their-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206965\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Iran won’t execute 8 women after he pleaded for their release"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Wednesday that Iran will no longer execute eight women<\/a> after he pleaded Tuesday for their freedom \u2014 calling it \u201cvery good news\u201d in a social media post.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have just been informed that the eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed. Four will be released immediately, and four will be sentenced to one month in prison,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI very much appreciate that Iran, and its leaders, respected my request, as President of the United States, and terminated the planned execution.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DonaldPresident Trump said the 8 women will be freed. AP<\/p>\n

The announcement came hours after Trump extended a two-week cease-fire <\/a>with Iran as US negotiators await Tehran\u2019s reply to the latest American offer to end the nearly two-month conflict.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s judiciary denied that the eight women were ever set for execution, claiming that<\/a> \u201cTrump was misled once again by fake news\u201d and that \u201csome of them have been released, while others face charges that, if convictions are upheld, would at most result in imprisonment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s claim is contested. One of the women, Bita Hemmati, was sentenced to death for allegedly being part of a group that threw objects onto Iranian forces during protests in January, human rights groups said.<\/a><\/p>\n

Her case was reported last week by the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center.<\/p>\n

Hemmati and four men were convicted of \u201cparticipation in protest gatherings on January 8 and 9, 2026,\u201d including \u201cchanting protest slogans,\u201d \u201cthrowing objects including bottles, concrete blocks, and incendiary materials from rooftops,\u201d and \u201cdestruction of public property,\u201d the activist news agency said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"CollageThe eight women have reportedly been spared the death penalty.<\/p>\n

However, two of the eight \u2014 Golnaz Naraghi, 37, and Venus Hosseininejad, 28, \u2014 have been out on bail since late March, according to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights organization.<\/p>\n

Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, who lives in the US, publicized the cases of the eight women, tweeting their names and photos<\/a> and specifying which four were believed to be<\/a> sentenced to death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump launched the current war on Feb. 28 after warning in early January that the US would attack if protests were violently suppressed inside Iran, which they then were to the tune of thousands of deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n

Negotiations have focused primarily on other matters, with Trump saying his top goal is an agreement to end Iran\u2019s nuclear enrichment and retrieve an estimated 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump announced Wednesday that Iran will no longer execute eight women after he pleaded Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,14670,9,11,10,62206,87,58,1076],"class_list":{"0":"post-206965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-operation-epic-fury","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-us-news","16":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}