Iran just brutally murdered a 19 year old champion wrestler, Saleh Mohammadi, by hanging him and several others. Why? Because they dared to speak out against the terrorist regime during the January protests. Now, Olympian athletes are speaking out against Iran’s atrocities, but too many others are shamefully silent.

Keep in mind, Saleh and others were arrested by the regime after the January protests against the Iranian terrorist leadership. The U.S. was the lead in urging Iran to not execute them.

ایالات متحده از گزارش‌هایی درباره صالح محمدی، قهرمان ۱۹ ساله کشتی، که با اعدام قریب‌الوقوع روبه‌رو است، عمیقاً نگران است. رژیم جمهوری اسلامی ایران، جوانان را قتل‌عام و آینده ایران را ویران می‌کند.

ما از رژیم ایران می‌خواهیم اجرای حکم اعدام صالح محمدی و تمامی افرادی را که برای… pic.twitter.com/lL324xWQWZ

— USAbehFarsi (@USABehFarsi) January 29, 2026

The translation is:

The United States is deeply concerned by reports about Saleh Mohammadi, a 19-year-old wrestling champion facing imminent execution. The Islamic Republic of Iran regime is massacring youth and destroying Iran’s future.

We call on the Iranian regime to halt the execution of Saleh Mohammadi and all individuals sentenced to death for seeking to exercise their fundamental rights.

Iran ignored those pleas for mercy, conducted a sham trial and hanged those young men yesterday.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary on Thursday ignored a U.S. 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.”

Just the other week the Iranian women’s soccer team took the exceptionally brave stance of not singing Iran’s national anthem. All of the usual suspects who are champions of women, such as supposed soccer great Megan Rapinoe stayed silent …to their shame. Then, many of the soccer players tried to defect and some were successful. For a period of time. Until…

The captain of Iran’s women’s soccer team has withdrawn her bid for asylum in Australia, making her the latest member to do so as fears grow that the players’ families are in danger if they don’t return home.

Zahra Ghanbari, 34, is “returning to the embrace of the homeland” after withdrawing her asylum bidSunday, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported.

None of them returned because they missed their family. Nope, it is because of what the rabid members of the regime and clerics are DOING to their families. 

Just so people understand what happened here:

These women claimed asylum because they were likely to be tortured and killed for a gesture standing up to the regime. The regime then started kidnapping their families instead to force them to come home and face likely execution. https://t.co/vPlEVc0jsC

— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 16, 2026

The barbaric mullahs are incensed that the Iranian leadership keeps getting killed. They are beyond angry that the Iranian people aren’t bowing to their brutality any longer. And so, they believe that continuing and even doubling down on their evil will keep Iranians in line, and get the United States to back off. 

Which led to the rabid mullah dogs of the Iranian regime brutally hanging Saleh Mohammadi and several others, most of whom were teenagers.

Olympians are speaking out and condemning Iran for murdering Saleh. 

Kaillie Humphries:

“The actions of the Iranian regime are beyond abhorrent. Murdering any teenager for the ‘crime’ of speaking out is unacceptable. Murdering a teenager who was specifically targeted because he is a champion athlete and icon of his country is even worse,” Humphries told Fox News Digital.

“This is a sad day for the sporting community. It highlights the absolute unthinkable differences of freedom we have in the USA as athletes to speak our opinions. Yes, I may get a few mean comments on social media, but I don’t have to fear for my life. I pray there is justice for his family and freedom for their athletes.”

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AJ Edelman:

“He was hanged for envisioning an Iran free from the predations of a regime now headed by an impotent nepo baby whose father thought him so incompetent he couldn’t run a lemonade stand. His sacrifice is proof that such a cause was just,” Edelman told Fox News Digital.

You know who isn’t speaking out and condemning Saleh’s hanging? The sports world as a whole. And they should be.

Nor any of the usual suspects who spent months screeching about Gaza genocide. They are all very radio silent right now. Shamefully so. 

But others, in addition to some great Olympians, ARE speaking out against Iran’s execution by hanging of champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi. Senator John Fetterman is one who is.

The Iranian regime executed a 19 year old for demanding democracy.

I stand with his memory and the thousands of other young Iranians.

Those who grieve the elimination of Iranian leaders over murdered protesters is telling.

It will be very telling who does and doesn’t speak out about Saleh’s murder. I applaud those Olympians for speaking out against Iran and on behalf of Saleh. I’ll leave you with former Iran youth champion wrestler Sardar Pashaei’s statement. 

“Others are still at risk, and there is still time to save them. The world must act now. Saleh’s only ‘crime’ was protest. He went to the streets for freedom, for a future where protest is not a crime, where executions do not exist and where people are not held hostage by their own government.”

Feature Photo Credit: U.S. State Department Farsi account via X, cropped and modified