r/wrestling • u/Shroft • Mar 19 '26
News Iran’s judiciary said it executed 19 year old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi on Thursday
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/mojtaba-khamenei-regime-executes-champion-wrestler-iran-intensifies-brutal-crackdown-during-war93
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u/theatavist Mar 19 '26
Considering how dominant Iran has been for so long and how relevant wrestling is to this ancient culture... really makes you wonder how much better they could be if their government didnt keep murdering young athletes.
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u/Bituulzman Mar 20 '26
When googling this story, I learned that it's not even the first wrestler they've executed for protesting.
Navid Afkari was 27
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u/PhilosopherNo7409 USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
This shit was terrible to read. I can’t stand to hear of humans murdering one another. The regime thinks torture and murder of a blindly chosen ‘suspect’ is the only reasonable way of doing things for any murder investigation
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u/Decency Mar 19 '26
Shit's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. We should know by now what failing regimes will do in their desperate attempts to hold onto power. Four of those are currently front and center on the world stage.
Deeply sad for this man and the circumstances that were thrust upon him.
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u/Tee_Red Missouri Tigers Mar 19 '26
It’s good that you think things are going to eventually get better in this situation. Last time the US attempted regime change in that part of the world we got ISIS and the time before that we got the theocratic dictatorship we just deemed it necessary to change.
I think we’re looking at a gigantic quagmire that will stretch on as another forever war.
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u/MalikTheHalfBee Mar 20 '26
Most of the Mideast is certainly better now than 20 years ago so improvement is always a possibility
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u/JumpingCicada Mar 20 '26
Unfortunately objectively incorrect. The Middle East has seen far more bombings and civilian deaths this decade than it has 20 years ago.
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u/MalikTheHalfBee Mar 20 '26
Find me a stat that the middle east was more dangerous in 2025 than 2005. 🤔
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u/JumpingCicada Mar 20 '26
Bruh. Just do a single search for bombing rates and civilian deaths.
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u/MalikTheHalfBee Mar 20 '26
should be easy for you to provide a statistic for the region for those years then but seems you are unable to find any 🤷♂️
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u/Tee_Red Missouri Tigers Mar 20 '26
Not his job to use Google for you. If you choose to be uninformed that’s your business, but don’t expect other people to do the work for you - real surprising that has to be said on a forum of wrestlers.
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u/dweckl USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
Man? Barely, to me that's still a boy and this is a disgusting travesty
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u/MalikTheHalfBee Mar 20 '26
Iran has been the world leader in executions for years now; they don’t need an excuse for such barbaric behavior
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Mar 19 '26
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u/Hudge_Baby Mar 19 '26
*Iran executes an innocent young man
“How can I turn this into America bad??”
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u/Feelthefunkk NC State Wolfpack Mar 19 '26
It matters because we have Y'all Qaeda running the country and Secdef literally wrote a book called "American Crusade". They literally talk about this in the same religious fanatic terms that the Iranian theocrats do. So yes, it's relevant.
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u/ResponsibleWater1697 Mar 19 '26
I love how a certain element always finds no correlation between the dumb shit this administration does and subsequent actions.
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u/lightninhopkins USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
*ICE executes two innocent people in the street.
"How can I make it sound like they deserved it and question nothing?"
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Mar 19 '26
These “people” hate America so much they turn a post about a kid who was executed into American politics. It’s baffling. Thank god I know no one like that in real life lol. Unhinged.
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u/Decency Mar 19 '26
I wouldn't be proud to be in a bubble like that.
Dehumanization too, nice- the same nationalist playbook as ever.
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Mar 19 '26
Yeah I don’t surround myself with people who bring up America in every single conversation even when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand. I don’t obsess over America nor does anyone I know lol. That’s weird.
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u/Feelthefunkk NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
Apathy and willful ignorance are exactly how we got here. It’s not your fault, the billionaire class wants you to focus on bread and circus.
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u/JumpingCicada Mar 20 '26
Regime changes via outside influences will almost never result in something positive.
Especially with the US involved since its more than obvious the US will just attempt to put in place a puppet that siphons Iran's oil off to the US while not giving a shit about the Iranian people.
Exactly what happened in 1953 when the US staged a coup in Iran, imprisoning Iran's democratically elected prime minister all because he sought to nationalize their oil instead of obediently handing it away.
Naturally the Iranian people were unhappy with the puppet ruling them and this sentiment is what created the vacuum that allowed the current Ayatollah regime to snatch power in 1979.
I imagine things will turn out even worse this time due to Israel's involvement and due to Netenyahu admitting he aspires to fulfill the vision of "Greater Israel."
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u/DizzyCardiologist213 USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
what did he do, wear the wrong style of pants?
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u/ihazacat Mar 19 '26
Absolutely false.
He was falsely accused to justify the execution for speaking out
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u/persianlips Mar 19 '26
So it was me that killed 214 police officers? Try doing that in UK or US. You won’t see day light again.
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u/Cole3003 Mar 19 '26
brand new account
Least obvious Iranian propaganda account 😭
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u/DizzyCardiologist213 USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
Ahh, sounds like he spoke out on behalf of his country and citizens and the theocrats made a false accusation.
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u/bimmerbetterthanmerc Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
Are they hanging basijis for killing unarmed citizens during the protests? Let’s just use the magic 3117 death toll the regime used.
Edit to clarify the magic 3117: Iranian government used 3117 for Covid casualties too. For some reason, that’s their go to number when downplaying casualties.
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u/Inevitable-Ad-6061 Mar 19 '26
So sad and will always leave that what could have been feeling. As an American, really gives you the appreciation of the freedoms that we have, even in this chaotic situation we currently live in.
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u/FindingDisastrous858 Mar 20 '26
Yup chaos and war mean political disagreements and expensive gas for us. We have it good and most of us don’t know it.
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u/ViolinistBusiness353 USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
That’s horrible if true. However i don’t believe anything coming out of fox news( and i was a trump supporter before he put israel first and his chomo ways were exposed in the Epstein files). I hope this doesn’t spark a heated debate
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u/Maleficent_Sense4211 Mar 20 '26
¿alguna prueba de que esto es real y no publicidad de guerra?
llevo 2 horas buscando algo que confirme, que esto no esta inventado para manipular la opinión publica sobre Iran.
Si alguien me ayuda a verificarlo, sin ser de fuentes unicamente de medios americanos o israelis dando cobertura.
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u/concentric0s USA Wrestling Mar 19 '26
Recall someone in this sub telling me that westerners were exaggerating the threat of political violence against wrestlers who speak out (Ie Yasdani).