UPDATE: J-Post Confirms – Jew Scheduled for Execution by Iran

IRAN (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Post has confirmed the tragic news that a young Jewish man has been sentenced to death in Iran.

Beni Sabti, an Iran expert from the Institute for National Security Studies, told the Post that the Jew is named Nethanel ben Ziona Ghahremani.

He is believed to be 23 or 24-years-old. Sabti posted a picture of the man on his X feed.

Sabti wrote “This Iranian Jewish man is going to be executed due to act of self-defense against a Muslim man who attacked him with knife but was killed himself.”

הבחור היהודי-איראני הזה, נתנאל, קיבל עונש מוות באיראן. נעשים מאמצים רבים בעולם לשחררו, נשאר רק להתפלל …
This #Iranian #Jewish man is going to be executed due to act of self defence against a muslim man who attacked him with knife but was killed himself. @LahavHarkov pic.twitter.com/8S2p4btOi7

— BenSabti (@BeniSabti) May 17, 2024

Sabti said there are efforts to “to talk with the Muslim family, whose son is dead, to have mercy on him Ziona Ghahremani . They can agree in one moment and let him go. It is a tradition in Iran. Even if the rope is on your neck and the other family comes and says, ‘We forgive him,’ they let you.”

Jewish Iranian-Americans are raising funds to send to the Muslim’s family to secure Ziona Ghahremani’s freedom.

Sabti suspects that perhaps the Muslim family is seeking to garner more money and is engaged in high-stakes negotiations with Jewish Iranian-Americans.

According to reports, the Jewish man’s family has attempted to resolve the situation under Iranian law, which allows the family of the victim to accept compensation, thus sparing the defendant from execution.

However tragically, the family of the dead man has refused to accept payment and is insisting on the death penalty.

Lawyers and community leaders in the Iranian-Jewish community in the United States have apparently been attempting to persuade the victim’s family to accept the money, however it appears those efforts have been futile thus far.

Please daven for Arvin Netanel ben Sonia Tziyona.