{"id":49463,"date":"2026-01-15T04:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/49463"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:27:10","slug":"iran-minister-says-there-is-no-plan-for-hanging-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/49463","title":{"rendered":"Iran minister says &#8216;there is no plan for hanging&#8217; protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday \u201cthere is no plan\u201d by Tehran to hang protestors arrested during anti-government protests. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no plan for hanging at all,\u201d the foreign minister told Fox News in an interview on the \u201cSpecial Report with Bret Baier\u201d show. \u201cHanging is out of the question,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Norway-based Iran Human Rights Society, hangings are common in Iranian prisons.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said he would take \u201cvery strong action\u201d if Iran started hanging protesters, but did not elaborate on his comments. \u201cIf they hang them, you\u2019re going to see some things,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Wednesday that he was told that killings in the Iranian government\u2019s crackdown on the protests were subsiding and that he believed there was currently no plan for large-scale executions.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been weighing a response to the situation in Iran which is seeing its biggest anti-government protests in years.<\/p>\n<p>Iran had a 12-day war with US ally Israel last year and its nuclear facilities were bombed by the U.S. military in June. Trump has been piling pressure on Iran\u2019s leaders, including threatening military action.<\/p>\n<p>The protests posed one of the gravest tests of clerical rule in the country since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 as they evolved from complaints about dire economic hardships to defiant calls for the fall of the deeply entrenched clerical establishment.<\/p>\n<p>The US-based HRANA rights group said it had so far verified the deaths of 2,403 protesters and 147 government-affiliated individuals. HRANA reported 18,137 arrests so far.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s government blames foreign sanctions for economic difficulties and alleges that its foreign enemies are interfering in domestic affairs.<br \/>No, I haven\u2019t heard about that. And there is no hanging today or tomorrow or whatever. That\u2019s Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/iran-minister-says-there-is-no-plan-for-hanging-protesters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday \u201cthere is no plan\u201d by Tehran to hang protestors arrested during anti-government protests. \u201cThere is no plan for hanging at all,\u201d the foreign minister told Fox News in an interview on the \u201cSpecial Report with Bret Baier\u201d show. \u201cHanging is out of the question,\u201d he said. 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