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Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: February

After Fox News report, Iran’s America-hating wrestling boss might be banned from US

Iran's Alireza Dabir urged “Death to America” in a television interview

Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: January

Don’t Let China Weaponize the 2022 Winter Olympics

While a full boycott would unfairly punish American athletes, there are other measures Washington should take.

Xi and Putin’s Summit for Autocracy

The two leaders stressed the strength of their relationship and vowed to protect each other’s interests.

Will the NBA Stand Up to China’s Bullying for Enes Kanter?

If the United States wants to send a message regarding China not only to Beijing but also to the international community, then America must first stand with Enes Kanter.

Give Sports Bigotry No Sanction

Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of Israel.” With the...

Why The Iranian Regime’s Murder Of A Champion Wrestler Matters

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...

Iranian athletes at Tokyo Olympics remember murdered wrestler Navid Afkari

A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'

Is Beijing Planning a Rob, Replicate, Replace Olympics?

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...

Athletes have good reason to beware Xi Jinping’s Beijing Winter Olympics

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...

Olympics Needs to Uphold Ban on Iran’s Discrimination

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.

Olympic sponsors must withdraw support if Iran is not banned

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...

Iran facing calls to be kicked out of Olympics after execution of boxer

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...

Iran to execute 2nd wrestler, sparking outrage from US State Department

Execution of decorated wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini is imminent

The Olympics must ban Iran

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...

Olympics refuses to discuss Iranian regime’s murder of wrestler

Iron Sheik and former Iranian Olympian wrestler urges Olympics to take action against regime

Azerbaijan MP tells ‘Post’ Iran must not execute wrestler

First politician from majority Shi’ite majority country to come out against Iran’s regime.

British minister opposes death penalty for Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari

UK now joins US, Germany in urging Iran to stop execution of reportedly innocent wrestler.

After ‘Post’ reports, Olympic Committee to probe Iranian wrestler’s execution

Iran plans to execute Navid Afkari for his peaceful protests against the mismanagement of the country