The lawyers for the death row inmates announced that the authorities had agreed to consider a request for a retrial • The decision comes after tremendous international pressure on the authorities in Iran

• Photo of the three death row inmates demonstrating for them in Berlin // Photo: Gettyimages

Authorities in Iran today (Sunday) decided to postpone the execution of three protesters arrested during the country's fuel protests in February and sentenced to death, the Reuters news agency reported.

Lawyers for the death row inmates, 26-year-old Amir-Hussein Muradi, 28-year-old Said Tamjidi and 26-year-old Muhammad Rajibi, said the country's judiciary had approved the postponement of the execution to discuss a retrial of three people convicted of sabotage, armed robbery and attempted escape. From the country. 

The decision was made after an unprecedented international pressure campaign on social media in which US President Donald Trump, well-known artists and other heads of state participated. 

But the main reason for the rejection is probably internal, for fear of the regime for riots and further demonstrations in the country. On Thursday, thousands went out to demonstrate in the southern province of the country and confronted the police forces. Protesters protested the country's desperate economic situation, the collapse of the local currency and rising unemployment.

The sights of protesters in southern cities served as reminders to authorities in Tehran of the February fuel protest that ignited due to a sudden rise in fuel prices, caused by the impact of US sanctions on the country. The protest began in the southern province of Ahwaz, where most of the population is Arab, but soon spread to other major cities in the country, where the riots caused unprecedented destruction of government buildings. 

Iran's economic situation continues to be desperate as today for the first time a ratio of 250,000 Iranian rials to the dollar is netted. The country is in the midst of a particularly deadly second wave of the corona and the various restrictions continue to weigh heavily on the local economy.