{"id":44660,"date":"2026-01-14T03:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/now-theres-the-threat-of-executions-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T03:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T03:17:38","slug":"now-theres-the-threat-of-executions-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/now-theres-the-threat-of-executions-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Now there&#8217;s the threat of executions&#8217; in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Anti-government protests have continued in Iran with thousands feared dead after the government crackdown on demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">One protester, 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, will reportedly be &#8220;executed tomorrow&#8221;, with the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights saying they &#8220;have never witnessed a case move so quickly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by the collapse of the Iranian currency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">BBC diplomatic correspondent Caroline Hawley tells us more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cedwgn4pqv4o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">Read more here.<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/c87r3122v02o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-government protests have continued in Iran with thousands feared dead after the government crackdown on demonstrators. One protester, 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, will reportedly be &#8220;executed tomorrow&#8221;, with the Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights saying they &#8220;have never witnessed a case move so quickly&#8221;. The protests, which began in Tehran on 28 December, were sparked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44662,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660\/revisions\/44662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}