Iran briefly closed its airspace Wednesday amid deadly anti-government protests and fears of American military action, following President Trump's warnings of strong response if demonstrators were executed. At the center was 26-year-old shopkeeper Erfan Soltani, whose reported death sentence was postponed after outcry, including from Trump, with Iran's judiciary denying any execution order. Regional powers lobbied against strikes, airspace reopened Thursday, oil prices fell, and Trump assured the killing had stopped—though the USS Abraham Lincoln heads to the Middle East as tensions linger.
