{"id":237606,"date":"2026-02-24T17:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=237606"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:33:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T13:33:41","slug":"iran-issues-first-death-sentence-over-anti-government-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/237606\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran issues first death sentence over anti-government protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A revolutionary court in Tehran has issued a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of “enmity against god”, which if confirmed would be the first such sentence linked to mass protests in January, a source close to the man’s family told Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The source told Reuters on Tuesday that Iran’s judiciary had not yet announced the sentence against the man, Mohammad Abbasi, and that Iran’s Supreme Court was yet to uphold it.<\/p>\n

Abbasi was accused of killing a security officer, an allegation his family denied, the source said.<\/p>\n

During the unrest, US President Donald Trump warned Tehran that he could order military action if it carried out executions.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A revolutionary court in Tehran has issued a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of “enmity against god”, which if confirmed would be the first such sentence linked to mass protests in January, a source close to the man’s family told Reuters. The source told Reuters on Tuesday that Iran’s judiciary had not yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":237601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,96,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-iran-en","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237607,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237606\/revisions\/237607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}