President Donald Trump stepped into the center of Iran's human rights crisis with a triumphant message that read like a rescue announcement. "Very good news!" he wrote, saying he had just been informed that eight women protesters who were to be executed that night in Iran would no longer be killed. He added that four would be released immediately and four others would instead serve one month in prison.
For a few hours on this Wednesday, April 22, it looked like the White House had pulled off an extraordinary last-minute intervention. Then Tehran answered back.
