Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjidi are reportedly in their 20s.
Iran halted the executions of three men who were sentenced to death for anti-government protests last year, according to one of their lawyers.
Babak Paknia told reporters that the supreme court had accepted a request for a new trial.
The decision comes after a hashtag against its execution was used millions of times online.
UN experts say the men confessed under torture and were subjected to “unfair trials”.
Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjidi, who are said to be in their 20s, were among the thousands of protesters across Iran who took to the streets in November against the government’s decision to increase the price of the gasoline.
All three men were sentenced to death earlier this year, but it was the high court’s decision to uphold the sentence earlier this week that sparked public anger, with the Persian hashtag #do_not_execute used seven million times online. .
According to the human rights group Amnesty International, more than 300 protesters were killed and thousands more were arbitrarily detained during the authorities’ crackdown on the November riots.
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Iran carries out more executions than any other country except China, and has continued to use the death penalty despite dealing with the largest Covid-19 outbreak in the Middle East.
Many Iranian human rights activists believe that by carrying out executions and sentencing protesters to death, the leaders hope to scare people not to return to the streets, reports BBC Persian’s Jiyar Gol.
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