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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked US PresidentDonald Trump to delay any plans for a US military attack on Iran, The New YorkTimes reported on Thursday, citing a US official.
The report said Israeli assessments indicate that the UnitedStates has not abandoned its intention to strike Iran but has instead changedthe timing.
According to Israel’s Channel 14, the United States informedIsrael on Wednesday that it would attack Iran overnight, before halting theplan.
This followed a statement made by Trump in an interview withFox News, in which he said that an Iranian protester would not be sentenced todeath following his warnings, adding that the same applied to others.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Thursday, citing aSaudi official, that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman persuaded Trump to giveIran’s government more time and refrain from launching military strikes.
Commenting on the report, the US president wrote, in a poston his Truth Social platform, “This is good news… hopefully it continues!”
Earlier today, Iran denied that a death sentence had beenissued against Erfan Soltani, who was arrested on Saturday in connection withthe protests, stressing that it was not preparing to carry out his execution.
The judiciary-affiliated Mizan News Agency said Soltani isbeing held at Karaj prison near Tehran on charges of “organizing gatheringsagainst national security and spreading propaganda against the system,” addingthat, if convicted, Soltani would be sentenced to prison, noting that the lawdoes not provide for the death penalty for such charges.
Trump said earlier that he’s been told that plans forexecutions in Iran have stopped, adding, “We’ve been told that the killing inIran is stopping, it’s stopped, it’s stopping, and there’s no plan forexecutions, or an execution, or executions, so I’ve been told that on goodauthority.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, meanwhile, warnedTrump against “repeating the same mistakes” made during the June 2025 war,accusing Israel of seeking to draw Washington into a new conflict with Iran.
Iran’s nationwide protests erupted on December 28 after therial collapsed to a record low of about 1.45 million to the US dollar, drivingsharp increases in food prices and inflation before spreading nationwide. TheHuman Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said at least 2,571 people have beenkilled so far, including 2,403 protesters, 147 government-affiliatedindividuals, 12 minors, and nine civilians not involved in demonstrations.Iranian officials have acknowledged an overall death toll of around 2,000.
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