{"id":677459,"date":"2026-06-01T07:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T07:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:33:10","slug":"live-trump-tells-critics-to-sit-back-and-relax-as-tehran-seeks-us-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/677459\/","title":{"rendered":"Live &#8211; Trump tells critics to \u2018sit back and relax\u2019 as Tehran seeks US deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Two Iranian protesters were executed on Monday after they were arrested during nationwide demonstrations in January, the judiciary\u2019s Mizan News reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Mehrdad Mohammadinia and Ashkan Maleki had been sentenced to death on accusations of setting fire to a mosque in Tehran\u2019s Gisha neighborhood, damaging public property, clashing with security forces and blocking streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">The judiciary said their sentences had been upheld by the Supreme Court before being carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Mizan published what it described as Maleki\u2019s confession, alleging that the two entered the mosque courtyard and set fire to gasoline that had leaked from overturned motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"CustomPortableTextComponents-module-scss-module__peBeZa__paragraph\">Rights groups have repeatedly warned that Iran\u2019s government uses forced confessions and fast-tracked trials in politically charged cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two Iranian protesters were executed on Monday after they were arrested during nationwide demonstrations in January, the judiciary\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,801,166405,166402,166400,1570,166403,166398,166401,166399,166404,129,3,452,453,3667],"class_list":["post-677459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-and-china","tag-iran-covid","tag-iran-economy","tag-iran-government","tag-iran-media-iran-and-the-united-states","tag-iran-news","tag-iran-nuclear","tag-iran-politics","tag-iran-us","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-us-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}