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Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« on: September 03, 2020, 10:02:02 PM »
Trump took to Twiter to ask Tehran's clerical rulers  to spare the life of Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old champion wrestler from Iran who was sentenced to be executed for his participation in the 2018 protests against the Islamic Republic’s economic policies.

Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-on-iran-not-to-execute-wrestler
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2020, 09:00:25 AM »
I just saw that. Given the popularity of wrestling they obviously aren’t trying to win the hearts of their people!
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2020, 10:28:47 AM »
Theological thuggery
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2020, 06:23:07 PM »
He's one of the most popular in the country, and that's why they execute him.
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2020, 10:30:48 PM »
Quote from: RYou on September 04, 2020, 06:23:07 PM
He's one of the most popular in the country, and that's why they execute him.
That is some seriously warped reasoning.
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2020, 04:52:53 PM »
If they execute him, why would they not execute you?  I'm sure people are asking themselves that very question.   Part of a campaign to spread fear by those who do not value life. 

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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2020, 06:25:07 PM »
Executed

Navid Afkari, 27, was hanged Saturday morning in Adelabad prison in the city of Shiraz.
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2020, 02:53:53 PM »
Quote from: RYou on September 12, 2020, 06:25:07 PM
Executed

Navid Afkari, 27, was hanged Saturday morning in Adelabad prison in the city of Shiraz.

We need to encourage their wrestlers to defect.
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2020, 07:42:48 PM »
Don't protest against a totalitarian government is the key here.  Do it you could die.  Don't and you might live.

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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2020, 05:08:01 PM »
Now they have made a martyr out of him. A very big mistake.https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1306691723725352960
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2020, 08:09:09 AM »
Hope to have lots of turkey callers at my funeral.
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #11 on: September 20, 2020, 04:22:30 PM »
Isn't that Morocco?
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Re: Trump calls on Iran not to execute 27-year-old champion wrestler
« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2020, 06:16:26 PM »
Both countries lost a golden opportunity to improve relations back in 2013 when the IOC dropped wrestling
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