US Vice President JD Vance, a longtime skeptic of foreign interventions, supported a US attack on Iran, The Washington Post reported, citing a US official and a person close to the White House.
"Vance reasoned that Trump had drawn a red line by warning Iran not to kill protesters and had to enforce it," the report said citing the person close to the White House.
Trump later decided not to strike Iran after learning about the consequences and that the strike would not lead to regime change.
The vice-president ultimately agreed with Trump's decision to hold off, the report said citing a person familiar with the process.
The president will have another opportunity to sign off on strikes against Iran in the next two to three weeks, when US assets headed toward the region will be in place, helping allay Israel’s concerns about its own protection, The Post said citing officials.
Soheil Zilabi, a resident of Yazdanshahr, was killed on Friday, January 9, 2026, after security forces opened fire on protesters in the street, an informed source told Iran International.
The source said that Zilabi was present at the Yazdanshahr protests on January 9 when security forces shot him in the head on Motahari Boulevard.
He was taken later that night to Fatemeh Zahra Hospital, where he died, the source said.
According to the source, security forces handed over only Zilabi’s bloodstained clothes to his family and told them to go to the Bagh-e Rezvan cemetery in Isfahan to receive his body.
The family went to Bagh-e Rezvan for days and Zilabi’s body was handed over five days later, the source said.
“Soheil was an extremely kind and lovable young man,” the relative said. “His mother raised Soheil and his two sisters with great hardship,” the source said.
The source added that Zilabi had returned from military service about a year and a half earlier and worked as a car paint color-matching assistant, leaving for work at 5 a.m. and working until 5 p.m.
