Seaman Kenneth Mathison, an airman, stands watch as an EA-18G Growler from the Electronic Attack Squadron 140 launches from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Mediterranean Sea, April 21, 2019. JEFF SHERMAN/U.S. NAVY
United States President Donald Trump has backed down from earlier threats to attack Iran over violence against protests, as the Islamic Republic confirmed that it won’t be carrying out any executions.
Trump has repeatedly threatened Iran since the start of the month, vowing to hold the government there accountable if protesters are killed. Reports from Iranian monitoring groups and officials from the country suggest that over 2,000 people, including both protesters and security personnel, have been killed so far.
The surprise shift came amid heightened tensions overnight, with the U.S. evacuating key bases in the Middle East and Iran closing its airspace amid reports suggesting that an attack on the Islamic Republic was imminent.
The de-escalation began with Trump saying late on January 14 that Washington had been informed that the killing of protesters in Iran has ceased and that the Islamic Republic will not be carrying out executions as feared.
“We have been notified pretty strongly — but we’ll find out what that all means… We’ve been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and it’s stopped,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office without elaborating on who passed along that message to Tehran.
Early on January 15, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that there will not be any “hanging today or tomorrow” in the Islamic Republic.
In an interview with U.S. broadcaster Fox News, Araghchi insisted that ten days of peaceful demonstrations over Iran’s economic hardships were followed by three days of violence orchestrated by Israel, and calm had been restored.
“I can tell you, I’m confident that there is no plan for hanging,” Araghchi said.
The Islamic Republic’s judiciary later confirmed that 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, one of more than 18,000 reportedly arrested during the protests, has not been sentenced to death.
The judiciary said that Soltani, currently held in the central penitentiary of Karaj, is being charged with “colluding against the country’s internal security and propaganda activities against the regime,” but that the death penalty does not apply to such charges if they are confirmed by a court.
This was followed by a report from the Pakistani newspaper Dawn revealing that Trump informed Tehran that the U.S. does not intend to attack.
Iran’s envoy to Pakistan, Reza Amiri Moghadam, told the newspaper that he received an indication overnight that Trump had communicated to the Islamic Republic that he did not want war. He said the U.S. president requested that Iran likewise refrain from attacking “US interests” in the region.
Soon after, a senior Saudi official told AFP that Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Oman led efforts to talk Trump out of an attack on Iran.
The Gulf trio “led a long, frantic, diplomatic last-minute effort to convince President Trump to give Iran a chance to show good intention,” the official said.
“Communication is still underway to consolidate gained trust and current good spirit,” he added.
Later in the morning of January 15, Iran reopened its airspace, and Reuters reported that the security warning level at the U.S. Al Udeid air base in Qatar had been lowered.
U.S. aircraft that were moved out of Al Udeid overnight are gradually returning to the base, one source with knowledge on the situation told the news agency. Two other sources, both diplomats speaking, said that some personnel who were advised to leave the base a day earlier have also been permitted to return.
This de-escalation appears, however, to be more of a maneuver, or even a straight up attempt by Trump to deceive Iran, just as he did before joining the Israeli war on the Islamic Republic last June.
The clearest sign of this is the lack of any reports suggesting that the U.S. and Iran will resume talks. Even if such reports emerge later, it is highly unlikely that Tehran will accept Washington’s strict conditions with regard to its nuclear and missile program, and because of this, it is highly unlikely that an agreement will be reached. To put it simply, the two sides just are too far apart on key issues.
Adding to the suspicion is a report by NBC News, which said that Trump had told his top national security aides that he wants any military action against Iran to deal a swift and decisive blow to the Iranian government while not triggering an extended conflict that lasts for weeks or months.
Citing a U.S. official and people familiar with the matter, the broadcaster said that Trump’s advisers have not yet been able to guarantee that the Islamic Republic would swiftly fall if attacked, and also are citing concerns that they don’t have the military assets in place across the Middle East to defend against an Iranian response.
Therefore, if Trump does decide to attack, he could initially green light more limited strikes on Iran while keeping open the possibility of later escalation, according to the report, which describes the situation as quickly evolving and stresses no decision has been made.
The sources quoted in the report emphasized, however, that Trump is prepared to follow through on his repeated pledge that the US is coming to the aid of anti-government protesters.
“If [Trump] does something, he wants it to be definitive,” one of the people told NBC.
This report appears to be an attempt to reflect an image of hesitation and even fear within the Trump administration, possibly to fool Iran. Multiple similar reports emerged before the 12-day war in June, and more recently before the U.S. carried out an operation in Venezuela to abduct President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
Even Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump, openly mocked recent reports suggesting that the crisis with Iran was over.
“All the headlines like these are examples of reporting that are beyond inaccurate.
The circumstances around the necessary, decisive action to be taken against the evil Iranian regime have nothing to do with President Trump’s will or determination.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Quite the opposite. Stay tuned,” he wrote on X.
The decision to attack Iran was likely taken even before the protests. Many reports from November and December even outright suggested that the U.S. and Israel were planning an attack on the Islamic Republic under the pretext of countering its missile program.
And while Trump is now trying to de-escalate, and the media is trying to show him as being hesitant, the U.S. military is already making preparations for an attack on Iran.
The Navy has ordered an additional guided missile destroyer, the USS Roosevelt, into the Middle East, where two other such warships, at least one nuclear attack submarine and the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier are currently deployed.
Reports also suggest that the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier and its strike group are moving from the South China Sea toward the region.
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erfan soltani, de 26 anos é um jovem bonito porém é um nazista que tem que ser decapitado! morra nazista maldito. todo aquele que trabalha pra israel é nazista. morra desgraçado filho da puta, morra!
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tanto ódio! deve ser um ser revoltado e vil para falar assim de alguém que ia ser executado por protestar.não me lembro de nas décadas recentes algum governo ter morto tantos dos seus próprios cidadãos.imagina você ir protestar contra o bolsonaro e a polícia disparar bala real contra você. seja mais humano! não defenda um regime totalitário,que mata o seu próprio povo. e acha mesmo que esta gente trabalha para israel?tantos milhares de presos, mortos e feridos trabalham para israel?!
imbecil, você sabe muito bem que jovens são recrutados para servir ao nazismo. você com certeza é um deles
defensor de nazistas terroristas!
a puta que te pariu é que é nazista zuca analfabeto
eliot homossexual de israel, coitadinho de você, cadê os argumentos? você nao tem cerebro seu sionista nazista
khomeini will fall.
his body will be dragged throughout the streets of tehran
and he will be stoned publicly.
death to the dictator!
death to khomeini !
down with the funder of jihadi terrorism
you know that khomeini died 1989 ? you must be a “american” 😂 not pleased with shoot women in the face in your trash bin, you probably wants to do the same as with osama bin laden, dig him up, and kill him for the umpten time 😂
you’re very deceived about the world
there are no worse sour losers than “americans”. they are very deceived about the world 😂 newtons laws, a persons date of death, they lie about anything, and then let their hamburger hole spread more stupid noises 😂
yeah, right. explain it all to us. what version are you selling? nazi, israeli or u.s.? hint: they’re all the same.
don’t be so trusting just because the story suits your prejudice .they know how to deliver that they’ve beem doing it for thousands of years .
somehow, i don’t think khomeini actually being dead has anything to do with prejudice. try again.
hang nuttyyahoo publicly
burn his body
death to the kiddie killers
drive the jooz back to khazaria
free palestine from the river to the sea
ramses as usual totally predictable as hitler at a holocaust.
trash belongs in the dumpster
you and yours are going down you bitch of a man.
he’s a bit of a provocateurist deadshit . totally ridiculous your normal everyday homo simpleton.
maybe russia is also fooling the usa, make sure they dont
only trump knows when he is going to say he’s going to attack some country, only to then say he isn’t. going to attack.
he’s a market manipulator. in this recent case oil price had wild swings. i’m sure his family, friends, market makers, insiders and others with access to the trump inner circle bought the lows and sold the highs. everyone that knows trump knows he likes mafia tactics.
mafia is pope mazzini s product sort of machiavelian monastic trumps not catholic it’s generally the plaything of catholics .
his wives first and last both are catholic . firsts the olympic skier who we’re told fell, down her stairs and died from blunt force trauma to her torso . melanis still stunning . very image conscious.
he somewhat remember of the pig eaten without face, in “hannibal”. if you have no face, you cant save face. it should be fun to see any of the serfs speak about democracy, and human rights now 😂 he is a nazi, self destructive.
i trick 340 million inferior species americunt peasant monkeys daily
the only trick you’d pull would have to be a drunken fool
sweden are sending some officers to greenland. look out, so they dont have any daughters at home, who can get murdered by the zio-nazis, like lisa holm ! its satan you avance against.
iran is under attack right now from mossad incited and armed protesters. israeli control of trump will attempt another false deal. expect israeli or us rockets to be shot at any iranian negotiator during talks. how long will iran tolerate this ?
israel is doing every possible treacherous political and media activity to get the us into direct war with iran.
the darpa created internet has become a first choice regime change weapon. the world needs alternative ?
probably, its easiest to blow up the atlantic cables, and hang mengele musk and adolf trump. their stupidity sent out over the world, are already a world government of a kind. its entitys you should not let close to your family, or country.
internet was invented in england actually .
opus dei . schwab said wef supports reducing populations ,actually said its the cornerstone of wefs policies , course peace ful is counterproductive. when in rome.
they have already do a test run on the fake pandemic. some percentage of the shoots was deadly. its also the same as all other terror from parasites onto the “society”. destructive idiots, which think they have a mission from god to decide what others shall do. sadistic personality disorder. opus dei on steroids.
you’re so boring ramses. 😴
russia have test sarmat-2 intercontinental ballistic missile. convince me that “nuclear weapon” exist, because their reputation do not stop anybody from attacking russia, or from genocide the jews. bastions are most easily attacked from the inside, thats the lump you put funny hats onto. anybody can be a jew those days. its probably self pity 😂
history of the tiny hats obtaining nuclear capability from the us is well documented. russia has its dead hand system and many new and newer missiles and response systems. a nuclear attack on russia would not succeed without destroying the dead hand. a mossad target for sure !
johnny pollard “lives”… in tel aviv!
no, its not 😂 latest funny thing i see about “nukes” are three idiots play with a ball of plutonium, and a screw driver. radiated to death, but no explosion. and dont forget the idiot impaled to the roof by a control rod, but no explosion. what do you think of a “pacifist”, einstein, that create “nuclear weapon” ? it was one of a endless row of jew rats from hell. use it, or stop rant about it. russia could start by declare newtons laws valid in north america 😂
einstein once sold heroin as a cure for morphine addiction. but, his letters document he refused to honored by israel. claiming israelis are crazy / insane.
well, i have a pdf file on storage unit, which simply declare him to be a fraud, with a “theory” that demands two clocks to go slower than the other, at the same instant. that he was mentally disturbed, is without question. its not like his invention have avoid wars 😂 heroin as a cure for morphine addiction, sounds like his thinking was that way 😂
you are right about that . they did set him up,and actually some say his wife was really the mathematiciam but they set up most people in their theatre .
and yes his theory was proven false back when i was in primary school by some space astronomer or something like that.
the coco clocks in the gps satellits speed up because of decreased friction in the bearings, due to decreased gravity. but they slow down, due to increased time between the lubrication management 😂 some points on earth, like the poles, have no rotation speed at all, but allegedly, all gps satellits are adjusted for the same higher speed, 12 hours for one orbit. relative speed against any point on earth, are different for all satellites, at different times.
it make no sense at all, unless time go slower in space.
nothing about “nuclear weapon” are well documented. it is as murky as walking cadavers, and clowns 🤡 who fly non existent airplanes like captain on the enterprise 😂
ramses there there have a little lie down old chap . repuerate a bit of rest and recreation you’ve been challenged lately and it’s showing .
everything can be traced to its source you have to know where to look and the internet is totally corrupt on the face if it in every way possible too . the biggest lie in human history and with ai censoring everywhere it will be totally ridiculous even more than now and its pathetic now .
agree. thats why the atlantic cables should get blown up, its ridiculous to see the blood thirsty christians on youtube 😂 the mass murderer behind internet are bill gates, the internet are like him.
its only a trick, for to enable free mass murder for the sinkable aircraft carrier in the mediterranean. it can get blown off the surface, and no wonder weapon will pop out of the ruins 😂 you have not study your judas enough.
close hormuz kill every amerikunt and joo puppet in the region
if it ends today, tomorrow, next week… or next year. let me see i$rael wiped off the map first!… than england who made the balfour declaration possible followed by it’s leg breaker uncle $hmuel!…
israel will be the first to be destroyed. the whore of revelations will be devoured.
but then the end will come quickly for the rest.
i believe you will get your wish, and the your judgment. along with everyone else.
you will reap as you sow . i suggest you try reading about the whore again .
we all got what is comin to “u.$.”.
not so dangling the exact story is that it’s” the city that is dived into three ” that is utterly destroyed”…. in one hour its wealth evaporated , and in one day its reduced to smoking ruins .
one city . and the whore is a symbol of a feminine entity , a prostitute who sells some commodity object or services . like a mother figure for example selling caring.
and you’ve never read it obviously first the cities destroyed , then after more mayhem there’s a thousand years of peace , then satan resurrects again , then theres a spiritual battle and then ” this world falls away ” and we , those chosen ” rise up in our new shining bodies ” and we live without darkness hunger thirsty suffering pain never tire never sleep , never desire ever again for evermore .
but thats at least a 1000 years away. in between we’re resting in peace i imagine. after the troubles are released plagues stones falling from the skies crushing us the birds eating our bodies and all that not much to look forwards too is it . just joy .
according to the bible, satan resurrected 2000 years ago. 1492, he traveled to north america. can we get rid of jehovas witness on the site, thank you. no cookies here, and no collect.
the kikenreich got an almighty spanking in june, so they want their amerikunt golem and wailing-wall-hugger-in-chief chumpo to do their fighting for them.
this is the normal day of a russia allie,hungry and misery as slways was
so what if trump and iran resume talks? it won’t make a difference, no matter how peaceful of a resolution.
when right compromises with wrong, you always get wrong.
that is one reason democracy is guaranteed to degenerate. and almost the whole world has embraced it. the rest have no way to fight it.
correct the pope’s already said on camera that he just glanced at trumps peace proposal and king charles already has a 100 year war contract with ukraine.
only hang your pope, and his murderers. when they hang, we will have peace.
absolute power corrupts absolutely not democracy.
huuh ? it seems that democracy can shut down newtons laws in north america. is that not absolute power ? also, you seems to have voted for a idiot, which have absolute power to shoot women in the face.
democracy was something degenerated from the very beginning, a lie. any mentally disabled psychopath can come to power by democracy, idiots, slow mass suiciders. not only adolf trump, but adolf hitler rothschild was partly voted. oh, yes, destroy the one ring, the zero, and idiots can not be advertised 😂
according to internet, mengele musk has shut down “x” in europe. good ! string him up also.
ramses with the rope of hope for heavenly curses . and by their works they shall be judged.. and all liars go to hell .
also according to internet, swedish source, the mass murderer bill gates shall come to sweden next week. kill him ! the swedish regime are one of those regimes that have mass murdered in the hospitals, and pretend its raining.
tricky trump no one pulls a swifty on him do they ? so observant of impartial balanced reporting here . impressively obvious. let’s all barrack for iran and convert to islam eh ?
not necessarily. kill all “americans” outside the island of death and destruction will do the trick.
trump is master at the double-cross.
his advisors are .
who ? who did he double cross ?
renee good.
“the two sides just are too far apart on key issues”, no doubt. the u.s. wants iran to surrender and they refuse. “pretext of countering its missile program”..what? this is no pretext, it’s what they’ve been after for years and why tramp ditched the jcpoa. regime change is not really desired either. they want iran neutered. they want to be able to use it to launch attacks on russia. this has been the plan for over 80 years. 800 bases? duh?
tramp 😂 freudian slip.
they aee trying to get iran to lower its defenses
israel, um país de fome e miséria como sempre
unsc showdown: russia warn us about “nuclear catastrophe”. they warn, and warn, and warn. it is no catastrophe ! fire ! or do you wait for the concentration camps, and that the jews shall get extinct ?
the only concentration camps are the ones in gaza and the west bank set up by the kiddie killers and their big nose henchmen kushner and witikoff.
they have start to expand it to the nazi heartland, a little loose start in the beginning, but no one really knows the full truth from the internet only. in the fake pandemic, for example, you had to visit a hospital, for to really understand the shit scared working slave cast, threatening patients.
and that is a very relevant example of herd mentality behaviour and the conditioning by the psychopaths behind it.
the art collecting nazi adolf trump steal the peace price from a woman ! did he threat to shoot her in the face ?
“it is time to end nato and close all american military installations in europe.” sonar21, hugin-n-munin. probably a good idea, after several hundred years of terrorizing native people, sometimes with actions not any different from nazi germany, like agent orange in vietnam. now he have come home to roost. end the “us” base on greenland, morons ! either peacefully, or by missiles. borrow some from russia.
“us” have world record in armed population. also world record in cowardness, and in humilated by a pletora of fascistic corps. you only have to look on youtube 😂 some taken down verbally, but they will only resorte to shot unarmed women in the face. kill of the parasites ! some soldiers had a adecvat reaction confronted by the concentration camp bergen belsen, they killed the guards. something alike should be done with the cattle coral of hospital murderers.
some russian idiots act like russia are a colony to “us”, which probably are the fact, as long they kill slavs, and avoid to harm the root causes. they mock europe for starting to protest against adolf trump ! russia seems not to be much to trust, judging from syria, and venezuela ? false as a snake. you should really have one revolution more, now the jews have control.
seems not possible to comment about russias greenland theatrics, where a russian nazi mocks the protests against adolf trump. you can see a lot of propaganda, that the october revolution was made by “jews”. there still seems to be khazars running russia, avoiding root causes, and killing slavs.
its nothing new, that whole nations are fouled to cannibalism; happen in germany. the russian reaction towards the threats against greenland, are straight out of a nazi ass. thanks for clarify the multipolar world. its also very strange that slavs are the root cause to something started by “us”.
adolf trump hints at nato exit. good ! take your bases with you, mass murderer !
scott ritter: “the us have become an appendage to israel” its the other way around, the fake jews are a appendage to the fake americans, the cult of satanic free masons, which lives from death. its no coincidence that they have mass murdered in the hospitals. you can follow their path with the nazi and war criminal lincoln, which break the constitution; empire uber alles, started with a genocide on a continent. and russia kill slavs, as a substitut for root causes 😂
its not strange, why some dislike oak tables, and bad snipers 😂 some psychologist can maybe explain, why entitys in need of a final solution, always get so funny clowns 🤡 performing it ? in the mean time, russia is capitalistic this week, and kill slavs, for to not harm root causes 😂 its actually not funny, it will not solve anything.
russia had a perfect opportunity to take out a big chunk of the worlds hospital murderers, but did nothing. so much for its “root causes” 😂
in davos, wef, one of the root causes to mass murder in the hospitals.
“i can’t take any of this serious anymore. why does russia allow these goofballs to meet them again and again? are they too playing some kind of silly game?” sonar21, hugin-n-munin. they all believe that they are jews. a jew can be anything, mass murderer, peace meddler, german, russian, all at the same time. its the universal judas. admit its funny 😂
they hope that their sacrifice of slavs to satan shall make him religious. the sneaky jews evaporated in syria, and evaporated in venezuela, and lie about root causes with a straight face. the root cause are centralized ruling, and “un” are a mass murdering part of the problem. russia have make the judas approach to rome, abandon all that get genocided.