A shopkeeper who was getting ready to being executed in Iran for his role within the anti-regime protests has been released on bail.
Erfan Soltani, 26, faced the death penalty after being detained during mass protests in January.
Iranian authorities appeared to make a U-turn after US President Donald Trump threatened to strike the country in the event that they executed prisoners.
Human rights organisation Hengaw reports that Soltani was released on bail on Saturday.
Soltani was feared to have change into the primary person executed over his participation within the protests which rocked Iran and left a whole lot of innocent civilians dead.
Relatives said he was issued a death sentence inside two days after being arrested on Thursday 8 January in his town of Fardis, on the outskirts of Tehran.
A family source said: ‘Erfan had received threatening messages from security sources prior to his arrest, but he remained committed to the protests.
‘He told his family he was being watched, but he refused to back down.’
Soltani, who works within the clothing industry and had recently got a brand new job at a personal firm, became the centre of rising international tensions after Trump warned Iranian clerics that America would take ‘very strong motion’ if protestors were executed.
He added: ‘In the event that they hang them you’re going to see something.’
Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, later insisted there was ‘no plan’ to hold people, while the country’s judiciary labelled foreign reports about his execution plan as ‘fabrication.’
Hengaw, a Norway-based Kurdish human rights group, continued to specific ‘serious and ongoing concerns’ regarding his life’.
Nevertheless, the group now say they’ve received information that he was released on bail yesterday.
Despite the climbdown over prisoner executions, tensions between the US and Iran have continued to escalate.
Trump has warned that a ‘large armada or flotilla’ is heading to Iran ‘at once’ in his latest warning to the regime.
He said during a Friday evening protest: ‘Ultimately, we’ll make a deal. If we do make a deal, that’s good, and if don’t make a deal, we’ll see what happens.’
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Trump was reportedly considering various options on Friday, including targeted strikes on military facilities.
The connection between the US and Iran is at all-time low after weeks of protests and a mounting death toll within the nation following the protests.
People had taken to the streets after an enormous increase in inflation led to people not having the ability to afford basic groceries, equivalent to bread, and the worth of their currency plummeting to be effectively worthless.
A minimum of 5,000 people were killed throughout the unrest, nevertheless human rights groups say they’re still working to determine the status of 1000’s more protesters.
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