‘We may have turned a corner’: Shashi Tharoor sees Iran tensions easing

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TOI News Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jan 17, 2026, 16:10 IST

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 Shashi Tharoor sees Iran tensions easing; cites halt to executions, softer US stance

File photo: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor (Picture credit: PTI)

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor connected Sunday said determination were indications that tensions surrounding Iran whitethorn beryllium easing, pointing to reports that executions of protesters person been cancelled and that the United States has toned down its subject posture.Speaking to reporters, Tharoor said a “positive sign” was the reported determination by Iranian authorities to halt executions that had earlier been announced. “Two bully signs we’ve heard are that the authorities person cancelled the executions of implicit 800 radical that they had announced previously. That’s a precise bully sign,” helium said, arsenic per quality bureau ANI.Tharoor besides referred to a displacement successful Washington’s approach, noting that US President Donald Trump had indicated helium was holding disconnected connected immoderate contiguous subject enactment against Iran. “Mr Trump has besides said that helium is holding disconnected connected immoderate strikes for the moment. I deliberation successful immoderate ways it’s a hopeful motion that we volition spot a dialling down of tension,” helium said.

#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram | On the concern successful Iran, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, "... Two bully signs we've heard are that the authorities person cancelled the executions of implicit 800 radical that they had announced previously... Trump has besides said that helium is holding disconnected on… pic.twitter.com/22jhbKUfPY

— ANI (@ANI) January 17, 2026

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