Olympians speak out against Iran's public execution of champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi

The execution of Iranian wrestling prima Saleh Mohammadi near the sports satellite mourning connected Thursday.

Iran's authorities executed the 19-year-old antheral connected Thursday. Mohammadi was reportedly killed successful a nationalist hanging, according to Iranian American quality rights activists and dissidents.

Iran International reported that Iran’s authorities hanged Mohammadi and 2 further Iranian men, Mehdi Ghasemiand Saeed Davoudi, "after being accused of sidesplitting 2 constabulary officers during nationwide protests earlier this year," the judiciary-linked Mizan quality bureau reported.

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Multiple Olympians person shared their reactions to the execution with Fox News Digital. 

Brandon Slay, Olympic golden medal wrestler astatine Sydney 2000

Brandon Slay of the USA during the Mens 76 Kg Greco-Roman Wrestling semi-final astatine the Exhibition Halls connected time 14 of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games successful Sydney, Australia.   (Ross Kinnaird /Allsport)

"As idiosyncratic who has traveled to Iran for wrestling doubly and welcomed Iranian athletes into our country, I’ve seen firsthand the dignity and bosom of the Iranian people. That’s wherefore it’s truthful heartbreaking to witnesser a panic authorities execute a teenage wrestler," Slay told Fox News Digital. 

"My prayers are with Saleh Mohammadi’s household and each who are suffering. In the look of specified oppression, I clasp to the anticipation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the lone airy that overcomes acheronian and lone information that proclaims justness and mercy volition 1 time prevail."

Tyler Clary, US golden medal swimmer astatine London 2012

US swimmer Tyler Clary celebrates winning golden successful the men's 200m backstroke last swimming lawsuit astatine the London 2012 Olympic Games connected August 2, 2012, successful London.   (CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP)

"As an Olympic golden medalist, I’ve spent my beingness astir athletes who correspond the precise champion of quality subject and freedom. What we’re seeing successful Iran—the execution of a wrestler aft what appears to beryllium a sham process—is a brutal reminder of what that authorities stands for. This is precisely wherefore beardown enactment matters," Clary told Fox News Digital. 

"President Trump has been clear-eyed astir the quality of this authorities and the request to basal up to it, and moments similar this beryllium wherefore that attack is necessary." 

Eli Bremer, US modern pentathlete astatine Beijing 2008

Eli Bremer of the United States celebrates successful the Men's Modern Pentathlon Fencing Epee One Touch held astatine the Fencing Hall during Day 13 of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games connected August 21, 2008, successful Beijing, China.  (Nick Laham/Getty Images)

"I’m beyond disgusted by the actions of the Iranian authorities today. Murdering a teenaged iconic jock shows however profoundly depraved the Iranian enactment is. President Trump has and continues to bash the close happening to guarantee this authorities is destroyed. A authorities that is consenting to execution a teenaged jock is simply a authorities that would beryllium consenting to execution Americans if fixed the chance," Bremmer told Fox News Digital.

"I volition proceed to enactment President Trump successful taking the enactment to disarm Iran and guarantee that the monsters moving the state are ne'er capable to perpetrate these atrocities against their citizens, Americans, oregon our allies ever again."

Katie Uhlaender, US skeleton athlete, six-time Olympian

Katie Uhlaender of Team United States poses for a representation during the Team USA Beijing 2022 Olympic sprout successful Irvine, California, connected Sept. 12, 2021. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images for Team USA)

"My bosom breaks for this jock and his family. What makes this much devastating is determination were clear, urgent calls for action," Uhlaender told Fox News Digital. 

"These athletes did thing wrong. They represented their athletics and their country, and alternatively of being protected, they were near exposed to a strategy that failed to enactment erstwhile it mattered most…

"The United States is successful a unsocial presumption to pb connected this issue. Through athletics diplomacy and planetary engagement, we person the quality to acceptable a higher standard—one wherever jock information is non-negotiable, wherever warnings are acted upon, and wherever governing bodies are held accountable for their failures to protect. Sport tin service arsenic a awesome of integrity and unity. Action, not silence, indispensable specify our effect moving forward."

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AJ Edelman, Israel bobsled and skeleton athlete, two-time Olympian

Israel's Adam Edelman takes disconnected his helmet aft a grooming league for the mens's skeleton during the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, astatine the Olympic Sliding Centre connected February 14, 2018. (OHD RASFAN/AFP via Getty Images)

"He was hanged for envisioning an Iran escaped from the predations of a authorities present headed by an impotent Nepo-baby whose begetter thought him truthful incompetent helium couldn't tally a lemonade stand. His sacrifice is impervious that specified a origin was just," Edelman told Fox News Digital. 

Sardar Pashaei, Iran younker satellite champion wrestler (non-Olympian)

"This is lone a glimpse of the regime’s brutality. A authorities that kills its ain radical and present publically executes a teenage athlete… For astir 50 years, immoderate politicians person tried to mean this regime. They inactive don’t recognize it. We do. We person lived nether it. We transportation its scars," Pashaei told Fox News Digital. 

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"Iranian athletics is nary longer successful the hands of athletes. It is controlled by the Revolutionary Guards—the aforesaid forces that suppress women, intimidate athletes abroad, and endanger their families. Others are inactive astatine risk—and determination is inactive clip to prevention them. The satellite indispensable enactment now. Saleh’s lone ‘crime’ was protest. He went to the streets for freedom—for a aboriginal wherever protestation is not a crime, wherever executions bash not exist, and wherever radical are not held hostage by their ain government."

Fox News Digital's Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.

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