Center for Security Policy President Fred Fleitz provides insight on ‘America’s News HQ.’
A top U.S. State Department official came out swinging Sunday against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s plan to execute another wrestler, after Tehran’s rulers publicly hanged the champion wrestler Navid Afkari in September on widely criticized, trumped-up charges. The Iranian regime must be held to account for their vile human rights abuses and their attempt to cling to power through execution,
Ellie Cohanim, the State Department’s deputy special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, told Fox News.
The execution of the decorated wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini is imminent. He is from Andimeshk in the province of Khuzestan, and was arrested in 2015 and charged with pre-meditated murder, supposedly committed during a group brawl. It is unclear whether Iran’s regime forced Hosseini to confess to a crime he did not commit.
Iran reportedly will be executing yet another champion wrestler shortly. According to a report in
Jerusalem Post, the Iranian regime has found star wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini guilty of murder during a brawl in 2015. The news comes just months after Iran executed another champion wrestler Navid Afkari for his role in protesting the regime s corruption.
Afkari s execution drew immense criticism globally and even a high-profile international campaign calling to spare his life didn t help much. The news of Hosseini s planned execution once again reflects Iran regime s desperate need for stepping up repression. Despite these executions of political prisoners, the regime hasn t succeeded in stemming the growing tide of popular unrest and people s uprising in the Islamic country.
Monday, 11 January 2021
Iranian Wrestling Federation vice-president Hamid Sourian has called for the planned execution of wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini to be prevented.
According to
The Jerusalem Post, Iranian wrestler Hosseini is due to be executed after being found guilty of murder.
He had reportedly been arrested in 2015 and charged with murder during a group brawl.
The execution is expected to be imminent as the victim s family has not agreed to pardon Hosseini for the alleged crime.
Sourian, a London 2012 Olympic gold medallist in the Greco-Roman 55 kilogram division, has pleaded with the family to prevent Hosseini s execution from taking place. I beg Doctor Gholami Gheibi, who is one of the prominent doctors in Dezful, as the father of the victim, to please God, he reportedly said.