This Sunday, September 12, will mark one year since Iran’s clerical regime executed the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for expressing opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran. His...
A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'
The Olympics delivers to China’s door some of the most genetically blessed people on the planet. A February 2021 report by the US’ National Counterintelligence and Security Center described China’s...
There are growing calls to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing or to relocate the event to a different nation. It isn’t hard to see why, given China’s aggression in the Indo-Pacific region, horrific...
The CAS ruling sends the wrong message to Tehran. The principles of the Olympic Charter and the lives of Iranian athletes ought to compel more than this.
Excerpt In late January, the Islamic Republic executed a second young Iranian wrestler as part of its campaign against dissent. Mehdi Ali Husseini, who was just 29 years old, was killed only four months...
The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed yet another extrajudicial death penalty on a champion athlete last week, sparking renewed calls from sports advocacy organizations for the regime to be banned from...
Execution of decorated wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini is imminent
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and United World Wrestling (UWW) — the global governing body for amateur wrestling—squandered a chance to save the life of Navid Afkari, the Iranian champion put...
Iron Sheik and former Iranian Olympian wrestler urges Olympics to take action against regime
First politician from majority Shi’ite majority country to come out against Iran’s regime.
UK now joins US, Germany in urging Iran to stop execution of reportedly innocent wrestler.
Iran plans to execute Navid Afkari for his peaceful protests against the mismanagement of the country
The former US acting director of national intelligence on Wednesday urged the organizers of the Olympics to intervene in the slated execution of an Iranian national champion wrestler.
Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous...
The National Security Agency (NSA) last week accused Sandworm Team, a Russian military hacking group, of ongoing efforts to target email servers around the world. The NSA’s attribution signals that Sandworm,...
China’s rulers let loose a deadly virus and imprison a champion of human rights
With tensions mounting in the Middle East, Iranian and Israeli fighters could be facing off in the near future, much to the delight of the International Judo Federation, or IJF. After 40 years of boyc...
The barn-burning revelations in the British newspaper Daily Mail in August that ...
Today, the Treasury Department issued its “largest North Korea-related sanctions tranche to date” against 27 entitie...