UNI SpecialBy Ramesh BhanNew Delhi, April 23 -- Yet another controversy arose in US-Iran relations, this time on the planned ''execution'' of eight women and subsequent stopping (of the executions) after US President Donald Trump's appeal to Iranian authorities that their lives be spared. While Trump announced late Wednesday night that the eight Iranian women who were to be ''executed'' for participating in January protests, would now be spared, Iran's judiciary denied Trump's claims calling them "fake news" and a ''fabrication.''Iranian judiciary, through its official news outlet Mizan Online, said none of the women mentioned in Trump's posts were ever slated for execution or faced death penalty.

Mizan reported that some of the individual...