Iranian regime executes Olympic wrestler for taking part in protests

On March 19, 2026, Iranian authorities publicly hanged Mohammadi alongside two other men, Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi, in the city of Qom. They are among the first confirmed executions tied to the nationwide protests that erupted in late December 2025. Things escalated sharply on January 8, 2026. Saleh Mohammadi was only 19 years old at the time of his demise.

The Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRNGO) was unambiguous in its response on X. Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam stated that the three men were sentenced to death “following grossly unfair trials, based on confessions extracted under torture and coercion,” and that the executions were carried out “with the intent of creating terror to suppress political dissent.” The court had rejected Mohammadi’s own testimony that his confession was obtained under duress.

Fellow Olympians speak out.

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May God comfort their grieving families.


And just think,there are supposed Westerners who support Iran.

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I think a lot of those western supporters, the Iranian regime would terminate if and when they can. Especially strange the sexually immporal people support Islam, cause deviancy is punished with executions. If a person comes out as homosexual this is allowable if the person agrees to surgery to reassign their gender, otherwise, hung..

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Iran executed three men on Thursday who were accused of killing police officers during protests in January, with activists warning of the risk of a new surge in hangings as war rages with Israel and the United States.

They were the first hangings Iran has carried out related to the nationwide demonstrations that were met with a brutal crackdown by the authorities.

Two sources confirmed to CBS News that Saleh Mohammadi, a young member of Iran's national wrestling team, was among the three men executed in Iran.

Rights groups said the trio were executed without a fair trial and had given confessions under torture.


Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi were hanged in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, after being convicted of the capital crime of waging war against God, known as moharebeh under Iran's sharia, the judiciary's Mizan news agency said.

They had been found guilty of involvement in the killing of two police officers and carrying out "operational actions" in favor of Israel and the United States.

"This is the Iranian terrorist regime," White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement provided to CBS News Thursday night. "President Trump will never allow these murderous, evil terrorists to obtain a nuclear weapon to threaten the American people, and this horrific tragedy is a stark reminder why Operation Epic Fury is righteous, and necessary."

There had been particular concern over the fate of Mohammadi, a teenage wrestling champion who had taken part in international competitions, who, according to Amnesty International, was denied "adequate defense and forced to make 'confessions'... in fast-tracked proceedings that bore no resemblance to a meaningful trial".

Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights said after the executions the three "had been sentenced to death following an unfair trial, based on confessions obtained under torture."

It said Mohammadi had only turned 19 last week.

Iranian legal affairs monitor Dadban added that they were "deprived of effective access to independent counsel and the right to defense" and under such circumstances, the use of the death penalty resembles an "extrajudicial killing."

"Risk of mass executions"

Iranian authorities a day earlier executed Kouroush Keyvani, a dual Iranian-Swedish national, on charges of spying for Israel, in a hanging strongly condemned by Stockholm and the European Union.

That was the first public announcement of such an execution since Israel and the U.S. launched strikes on Iran on February 28, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering the war that has spread across the Middle East.

"We are deeply concerned about the risk of mass executions of protesters and political prisoners in the shadow of war," said Iran Human Rights.