{"id":322996,"date":"2026-04-22T23:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=322996"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:07:39","slug":"trump-claims-his-intervention-stopped-eight-iranian-women-being-executed-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/trump-claims-his-intervention-stopped-eight-iranian-women-being-executed-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims his intervention stopped eight Iranian women being executed | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Donald Trump announced the news on social media (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Donald Trump says eight female Iranian prisoners have been spared from death after he pleaded for his or her release ahead of ceasefire talks.<\/p>\n<p>The US President announced on Truth Social: \u2018Excellent 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. <\/p>\n<p>\u20184 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.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of their apparent releases and cancellation of their executions comes as ceasefire talks between Iran and the US proceed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"539\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_294077048-6c34.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=539\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28066382\" alt=\"Trump demands Iran release 8 young women due to be hanged\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Trump shared a photograph of the ladies who were resulting from be executed (Picture: Truth Social)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tJoin for all of the newest stories\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<p>Start your day informed with Metro&#8217;s <strong>News Updates<\/strong> newsletter or get <strong>Breaking News <\/strong>alerts the moment it happens. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks, which Iranian media said were carried out by Iran\u2019s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, got here after Trump said the US would indefinitely extend the\u00a0ceasefire\u00a0with Iran, resulting from expire on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s oil and natural gas pass in peacetime.<\/p>\n<p>That signifies that even when the\u00a0ceasefire\u00a0largely holds \u2013 and Iran and the US don&#8217;t resume major attacks \u2013 the war will proceed to weigh heavily on the worldwide economy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_289287036-895b.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28075889\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - This US Army handout photo taken on March 2, 2026, and released on March 13, 2026, by US Central Command Public Affairs shows a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) conducting live-fire missions during \" operation=\"\" epic=\"\" fury=\"\" at=\"\" an=\"\" undisclosed=\"\" location.=\"\" iranian=\"\" officials=\"\" led=\"\" a=\"\" pro-government=\"\" rally=\"\" in=\"\" tehran=\"\" as=\"\" explosions=\"\" rocked=\"\" the=\"\" city=\"\" on=\"\" march=\"\" while=\"\" united=\"\" states=\"\" vowed=\"\" it=\"\" would=\"\" intensify=\"\" strikes=\"\" coming=\"\" hours=\"\" and=\"\" days.=\"\" by=\"\" us=\"\" army=\"\" afp=\"\" via=\"\" getty=\"\" images=\"\" this=\"\" picture=\"\" was=\"\" blurred=\"\" source=\"\" restricted=\"\" to=\"\" editorial=\"\" use=\"\" mandatory=\"\" credit=\"\" photo=\"\" central=\"\" command=\"\" public=\"\" affairs=\"\" handout=\"\" no=\"\" marketing=\"\" advertising=\"\" campaigns=\"\" distributed=\"\" service=\"\" clients=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The Strait of Hormuz stays closed weeks after the conflict began (Picture: AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The longer the Strait stays closed, the more severe and widespread the results will probably be \u2013 and the longer it would take the economy to bounce back.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has offered no formal acknowledgement of Trump\u2019s extension, but an Iranian diplomat said talks wouldn&#8217;t resume until the blockade is lifted.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian state television later reported that the ships were within the Revolutionary Guard\u2019s custody and being taken to Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in contact with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><strong>check our news page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Trump may regret his handling of Iran and Pope Leo XIV as approval rating hits recent low<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Iran tells Donald Trump to \u2018shut up\u2019 in latest AI video invoking SpongeBob SquarePants<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Don\u2019t get too comfortable with TACO Trump\u2019s latest climbdown<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card accent--news\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-end-card__inner\">\n<h4>News Updates<\/h4>\n<p>Stay on top of the headlines with each day email updates.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump announced the news on social media (Picture: AFP) Donald Trump says eight female Iranian prisoners have been spared from death after he pleaded for his or her release ahead of ceasefire talks. 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