Iran's Islamic Regime Executes Iranian Champion Wrestler in 'Barbaric' Public Hanging amid War

Benjamin Weinthal : Mar 19, 2026
Fox News

[FoxNews.com] The Islamic Republic of Iran's judiciary on Thursday ignored a US State Department warning along with pleas from elite Iranian-American wrestlers to not execute 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi for protesting against the Khamenei regime. Reports say Mohammadi was killed in a public hanging seen as a barbaric move by the Iranian regime to snuff out the ongoing movement seeking to topple it, according to Iranian American human rights activists and dissidents. Nima Far, a human rights activist and Iranian combat athlete who is an expert on elite Iranian wrestling, told Fox News Digital, "His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic's pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society, as seen with Navid Afkari and others executed despite international outcry."... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Click Here to read. (Screengrab image: via Republic World-Social Media)