long time critic iranian regime The former head of the rogue nation’s national wrestling team has urged sports organizations to ban Iran from competition, weeks after Tehran executed thousands of anti-government protesters.

Wrestling, Iran’s national pastime, has been hit hard by the Iranian regime’s massacre of protesters in an effort to end 47 years of totalitarian Islamic rule in the country. The clerical regime killed Parsa Lorestani, a 15-year-old protester and wrestler from the western Iranian city of Zagheh, London-based independent news agency Iran International reported on Friday. On January 8, a government sniper killed Lorestani during a protest in the city of Khorramabad. The outlet showed video of the young boy wrestling.

Iran faces imminent execution for participating in protests as international pressure mounts to save wrestling champion Saleh Mohammadi. (foreign affairs counter)

“Another wrestler murdered. Erfan Khali was 20 years old and a champion,” Sardar Parshei, the former head coach of Iran’s national Greco-Roman wrestling, wrote on his

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Alinejad pointed out that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union, controls all aspects of Iranian society, including sports.

“FIFA, the International Olympic Committee and all global sports organizations must refuse to legitimize a system that slaughters its own people and athletes in the fight for freedom and human dignity,” Alinejad said. “Boycott the Islamic Republic from participating in all international sports competitions.”

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei sits next to Iran’s top military officials. (Getty Images)

Afsoon Roshanzamir Johnston, the first American female wrestler to win a medal at the 1989 world championships, told Fox News Digital she was sickened by the massacre of protesters in her home country.

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“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I speak for the Iranian people and the dire situation currently unfolding in my home country,” she said. “I was a little girl in Iran during the 1979 revolution, and I clearly remember what it felt like to turn back the clock 100 years ago, and women’s freedoms and basic human rights were stripped away overnight.”

Roshanzamir Johnston says women Women are denied basic rights Young male wrestlers were tortured and executed for competing in athletics.

“We can no longer turn a blind eye to this atrocity,” she said. “Now is the time for a call to action: We must find a way to put undeniable pressure on the regime to end these mass killings without denying our athletes hard-won opportunities. The world must stand with the people of Iran before we lose more of our bravest souls.”

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Pasch, a former world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling, told Fox News Digital that he is also working on International Olympic Committee and World Wrestling Federation Organization that prevents Iran from participating in the competition.

On January 11, Sepehr Ebrahimi was shot and killed by security forces during anti-regime protests near Tehran. (Simay Azadi/National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI))

When asked whether the International Olympic Committee would ban Iran from participating and whether the Olympic Committee agreed with the United States’ view Ask Iran not to implement 19-year-old wrestler Saleh Mohammadi is facing the death penalty, and the International Olympic Committee’s media team has instructed Fox News Digital Channel to issue a statement on the matter on January 29.

“We will continue to work with Olympic stakeholders, often through quiet sports diplomacy, to provide where we can. The IOC remains in contact with the Iranian Olympic community.”

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Dan Russell, executive director of USA Wrestling for Peace, said sports and diplomacy can be complicated, but in the current situation, athletes must stand together.

“Neutrality does not mean indifference when lives are at stake,” Russell said. “Sports must uphold peace, respect and human dignity.”

“All options must be considered to demand an immediate halt to executions, the release of imprisoned wrestlers such as Saleh Muhammad and Alireza Nejati, and basic protections for athletes of conscience,” Russell added. “These athletes represent the best of our wrestling family.”

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A spokesman for Iran’s mission to the United Nations told Fox News Digital that “the mission declined to comment.”

But not all critics Tehran’s brutal regime Support banning Iran from sports competitions.

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“I’m not in favor of banning the Iranian wrestling team,” said Potkin Azamel, an expert on the Islamic Republic. “If the Iranian wrestling team competes, it will be an opportunity for more spectators to defect and protest against the regime, which will be televised and reach millions of viewers within Iran.”

“This ban is just a total sacrifice to other wrestlers who have been training for this for so long,” he added. “Having said that, the IOC and World Wrestling should make some statements and ensure that spectators can be shown photos of fallen wrestlers.”