Kick Iran out of Olympics, World Cup for execution of over 30 athletes, activists demand

A longtime professional of the Iranian authorities and the erstwhile caput of the rogue nation’s nationalist wrestling squad are urging sports organizations to prohibition Iran from competitions conscionable weeks aft Tehran executed thousands of anti-government demonstrators.

The athletics of wrestling — a nationalist pastime successful Iran — has been deed hard by the Iranian regime’s slaughter of protesters seeking to extremity 47-years of Islamist totalitarian regularisation successful the country. According to a Friday study from the London-based autarkic quality enactment Iran International, the clerical authorities killed Parsa Lorestani , a 15-year-old protester and wrestler from the metropolis of Zagheh successful occidental Iran. A authorities sniper killed Lorestani successful the metropolis of Khorramabad during a protestation connected Jan. 8.  The outlet showed video of the young lad wrestling.

Wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi faces imminent execution successful Iran for protestation information arsenic planetary unit mounts to prevention the athlete. (The Foreign Desk)

"Another wrestler murdered. Erfan Kari was 20. A champion," Iranian-American Sardar Parshei, erstwhile caput manager of Iran’s nationalist Greco-Roman wrestling, wrote connected his X relationship Friday."He could person been an Olympian. Instead, the Islamic authorities changeable him for protesting. Other wrestlers are inactive successful prison. Be their voice. Save them."

Prominent dissident Masih Alinejad announced to her 786.800 followers successful X station connected Friday that, "The Islamic Republic has slaughtered implicit 40,000 protesters, thousands of them athletes, children, teenagers, young people, women, men, and from assorted sports disciplines. At the aforesaid time, the authorities shamelessly exploits planetary sporting events to legitimize itself and whitewash its crimes. With the upcoming FIFA World Cup to beryllium hosted successful the United States, we request that FIFA instrumentality a steadfast and principled stand."

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Alinejad noted that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is recognized by the U.S. and European Union arsenic a violent organization, controls each aspects of Iranian society, including sports.

"FIFA, the International Olympic Committee and each planetary sports organizations indispensable garbage to legitimize a strategy that massacres its ain radical and athletes for demanding state and quality dignity," Alinejad said. "Boycott the Islamic Republic from each planetary sporting competitions."

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pictured  sitting adjacent to elder subject authoritative successful Iran. (Getty Images)

Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston, the archetypal American pistillate wrestler to triumph a medal successful satellite title contention successful 1989, told Fox News Digital the slaughter of protesters successful her homeland makes her sick.

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"It is with a precise bittersweet and dense bosom that I talk for the Iranian radical and the dire concern presently unfolding successful my homeland.," she said. "Having been a young miss successful Iran during the 1979 Revolution, I vividly retrieve the feeling of the clocks being turned backmost 100 years arsenic women’s freedoms and cardinal quality rights were stripped distant overnight."

Roshanzamir Johnston said females women are denied the basal close to enactment successful athletics, and young antheral wrestlers are being tortured and executed.

"We tin nary longer crook a unsighted oculus to this brutality," she said. "It is clip for a telephone to action: we indispensable find a mode to spot undeniable unit connected the authorities to extremity these wide killings without stripping our athletes of their hard-earned opportunities. The satellite indispensable basal with the radical of Iran earlier much of our bravest souls are lost."

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Parshei, who was a satellite champion Greco-Roman wrestler, told Fox News Digital that helium is besides campaigning for the IOC and the United World Wrestling enactment to artifact Iran from competitions.

Sepehr Ebrahimi was changeable and killed by information forces during anti-regime protests adjacent Tehran connected Jan. 11. (Simay Azadi/ National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))

When asked if the IOC would prohibition Iran and whether the Olympic assemblage agrees with the U.S. request that Iran not execute 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, who faces an imminent decease penalty, the IOC media squad directed Fox News Digital to a January 29 connection connected the matter.

"We volition proceed to enactment with our Olympic stakeholders to assistance wherever we can, often done quiescent athletics diplomacy. The IOC remains successful interaction with the Olympic assemblage from Iran."

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Dan Russell, enforcement manager of the U.S.-based Wrestling for Peace organization, said sports and diplomacy tin beryllium complicated, but successful the existent situation, athletes indispensable basal together.

"Neutrality cannot mean indifference erstwhile lives are astatine stake," Russell said. "Sport indispensable instrumentality a basal for peace, respect, and quality dignity."

"Every enactment indispensable beryllium considered to request an contiguous halt to executions, the merchandise of imprisoned wrestlers specified arsenic Saleh Mohammadi and Alireza Nejati, and basal protections for athletes who talk with conscience," Russell added. "Athletes who correspond the champion of who we are arsenic the wrestling family. "

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A spokesperson for Iran’s UN ngo told Fox News Digital that "The ngo declined to comment."

But not each critics of Tehran's brutal authorities enactment banning Iran from sports competitions.

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"I americium not successful favour of banning Iran’s wrestling team," said Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian adept connected the Islamic Republic. "If Iran’s wrestling squad competes, it's an accidental for much defections and protests against the authorities by the spectators which volition beryllium televised and scope millions of viewers wrong Iran, too."

"The prohibition would conscionable beryllium a broad victimization of different wrestlers who person trained agelong hours for this," helium added. "Having said that, the IOC and UWW should marque immoderate connection and marque definite spectators are allowed to show pictures of the fallen wrestlers."