Ultimate low blow: Star wrestler hanged as Dems, liberal media coddle Iran regime

Wrestling, oregon "koshti," is Iran’s nationalist sport, rooted successful its pre-Islamic Persian individuality and taste heritage. Its grant codification of kindness, chivalry and humility has animated Iran’s epic poesy and prose, merging Iranian nationalism and heroism to look arsenic 1 of Iran’s astir enduring taste treasures.

On March 19, conscionable a time earlier the accomplishment of outpouring and the solemnisation of the past Iranian New Year Nowruz, the Islamic authorities executed 1 of Iran’s astir talented wrestlers, on with 2 different young men — efficaciously punishing Iranians for honoring their pre-Islamic past.

The timing could not person been a coincidence. While the fume was inactive billowing from the barrels of military-style guns utilized to transportation retired the worst massacre successful Iran’s modern past this past January, and portion wary and wounded Iranians were preparing to invited Nowruz successful a amusement of resilience, the authorities decided to punctual Iranians of precisely who is successful charge.

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The 3 young men, 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, 21-year-old Saeed Davudi, and Mehdi Ghassemi, were convicted of sidesplitting 2 constabulary officers, inciting unit by joining protesters, and waging warfare against God. 

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

They were hanged successful nationalist successful the metropolis of Qom, the Vatican of Iran, the hub of Shi’a doctrines of morality and piety.

History volition amusement that President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu stood firmly betwixt the mullahs and their missiles. To formed this warfare arsenic unnecessary — and worse, arsenic amerciable — by the wide media and the Democrats successful Congress is simply a dereliction of work to safeguard the American people.

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The decease toll pursuing the massacres of this past January is inactive rising: shot subordinate Mohammad Hossein Hosseini, h2o polo goalkeeper Ali Pishevarzadeh, marathon runner Niloufar Pas, kickboxing champion Benjamin Naghdi, teenage shot subordinate Abolfazl Dokht, boxer Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani and astatine slightest 20 others are reportedly detained successful solitary confinement and are astatine hazard of being executed.

The Center for Human Rights successful Iran (CHRI) has warned the planetary assemblage that "Iran is facing the hazard of a catastrophic quality rights crisis," and has denounced the swift trials arsenic "sham trials based connected torture and forced confessions."

In January, conscionable arsenic now, the condemnation of the Islamic authorities fell on enactment lines, with Republicans decrying the inhumanity of Iranian leaders portion Democrats and the wide media demurred implicit limits connected the work to protect.

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This is not the archetypal clip the Islamic authorities has killed its ain athletes. Perhaps the astir wide known lawsuit is Navid Afkari, a prima wrestler who, contempt a planetary run led by athletes and quality rights organizations, was hanged successful September 2020 for the alleged execution of a information guard.

Iranian writer and activistic Masih Alinejad has pointed to the broader authorities strategy of eliminating Iran’s heroes truthful that it could crush Iranians’ spirit. "This is not conscionable astir sports," she pleaded connected X, "this is astir quality dignity. They hanged him without giving him a accidental to accidental goodbye to his family."

The gyration that toppled the Shah and ushered successful "the property of extreme" of Ayatollah Khomeini was, astatine its core, according to Professor Ali Ansari, the manager of Iranian studies astatine the University of St. Andrews, a conflict to "redefine the Iranian identity." Ayatollah Khomeini saw Iranian nationalism arsenic a negation of Islam and sought to surrender Iran’s past and civilization to the beingness of the prophet Muhammad and the emergence of Shi’ism.

His sermons often ridiculed Iran’s pre-Islamic history. "Cyrus the Great was not that large if helium allowed Jews to rebuild their temple," helium is quoted arsenic saying successful his compilation Sahifeh-ye Imam. Taking a nonstop jab astatine the beloved pre-Islamic king, Anushirvan the Just, helium said, "He was Anushirvan the unjust due to the fact that helium didn’t cognize Islam yet. In fact, helium was worse than Satan."

Iranians person cleverly pushed backmost against the regime’s deliberate encroachment into their cherished history. At the outset of the revolution, they formed quality roadblocks to halt bulldozers from reaching the past ruins of Persepolis, which dates backmost to the Achaemenid Empire. More recently, they gathered astir the tomb of Cyrus the Great and different humanities sites during Nowruz to chant pro-Iranian slogans.

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Perhaps the astir telling motion that the Iranian radical are winning the conflict of nationalism vs. Islamism is successful their prime of babe names. Shahan, the plural signifier of Shah, has replaced Mohammad arsenic the astir fashionable boys’ sanction successful Iran.

Saleh Mohammadi, left, an Iranian wrestling champion was reportedly executed implicit protestation information earlier this year. On right, a Tehran billboard showing Supreme Leaders Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ali Khamenei and recently appointed Mojtaba Khamenei, displayed connected March 10, 2026. (The Foreign Desk/AFP via Getty Images)

It is bittersweet but unsurprising that Iran’s wrestlers — the symbols of Iran’s past past of kings and paladins and the guardians of its "heroic sport" — person besides go authorities targets. Tehran sees much worth successful mounting them arsenic examples for the remainder of Iranians than it does successful them bringing Olympic medals backmost to their country.

Considering that wrestling has go the country’s astir palmy Olympic sport, accounting for 43 of its 69 full medals, according to United World Wrestling, the regime’s strategy of erasing 1 of the past pillars of Iranian individuality is borderline comical — if it were not truthful tragic.

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The clerics and their henchmen are not aft their wrestlers only. They are aft making the absurd normal. As 1 erstwhile elder American diplomat told maine successful a telephone telephone to privation maine a blessed Nowruz, the execution of Saleh Mohammadi and his 2 young friends is akin to the U.S. authorities sending its champion Marine and his puppies to the electrical seat connected July 4 for the transgression of complaining astir the rising terms of blistery dogs. "It is absurd." 

Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Absurdity.

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