Donald Trump says eight female Iranian prisoners have been spared from death after he pleaded for his or her release ahead of ceasefire talks.
The US President announced on Truth Social: ‘Excellent news! I even have just been informed that the eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will now not be killed.
‘4 will probably be released immediately, and 4 will probably be sentenced to 1 month in prison. I very much appreciate that Iran, and its leaders, respected my request, as President of the US, and terminated the planned execution.’
The eight women, who were featured in a photograph he shared on Truth Social yesterday, had been sentenced to death for protesting against the regime earlier this 12 months.
The announcement of their apparent releases and cancellation of their executions comes as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US proceed.
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Earlier today, Iran fired on three ships within the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring the continuing threat to global energy supplies and complicating efforts to bring the US and Iran together for talks to finish the war.
The attacks, which Iranian media said were carried out by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, got here after Trump said the US would indefinitely extend the ceasefire with Iran, resulting from expire on Wednesday.
But Trump said the US would proceed to blockade Iranian ports, and the attacks reinforced the risks to traffic within the strait, through which 20% of the world’s oil and natural gas pass in peacetime.
That signifies that even when the ceasefire largely holds – and Iran and the US don’t resume major attacks – the war will proceed to weigh heavily on the worldwide economy.
The longer the Strait stays closed, the more severe and widespread the results will probably be – and the longer it would take the economy to bounce back.
Iran has offered no formal acknowledgement of Trump’s extension, but an Iranian diplomat said talks wouldn’t resume until the blockade is lifted.
Iran opened fire on a container ship within the strait on Wednesday morning, and a second was attacked a short while later, in keeping with the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre.
Iranian state television later reported that the ships were within the Revolutionary Guard’s custody and being taken to Iran.
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