Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani (file photo), Iran's former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, said that a regime change would end human rights violations, an aggressive foreign policy, and "behavior inconsistent with peace and stability" now occurring in Iran. Ever since winning their first Olympic wrestling medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Iranian wrestlers have excelled at the Games, returning home with a total of 43 medals to date, more . The Asian Championships begins April 9 in Astana, Kazakhstan and the European Championships will be held in Zagreb, Croatia from April 17. The protests grew even larger following the news of the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl by a local police commander. To the left is a rundown on Olympic medals (in Greco-Roman and freestyle). Pahlavi is scheduled to speak at the European Parliament on March 10 at the invitation of Charlie Weimers, a representative of Sweden in the European Parliament. She is in good health," Albares said. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said earlier this month that it was in discussions with Tehran after Bloomberg News reported that the watchdog's inspectors in Iran had found uranium enriched to 84 percent purity. Suleyman ATLI (TUR) raises Andrii YATSENKO's (UKR) hand after winning the 57kg final. Protesting students have chanted "Woman, life, freedom" and "Death to the dictator" at the rallies. Edemi BOLKVADZE (GEO), 10-0, 70kg Signatories to the letter, published on February 22, noted "such sentences have no result other than depriving Iranian society of committed thinkers who strive for freedom and justice, and only blocks the nonviolent development of the country." But one of Yazdani'stoughest rivals is not only inside of Iran -- but he'sinside of his town,Juybar! Between the 1990s and 2022, the two teams competed dozens of times. 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Kamran GHASEMPOUR, the two-time Asian champion and two-time U23 world champion,competed against Yazdani in theteam trials. Ethan RAMOS (PUR), 11-8 Oct 27, 2018 3.8K Dislike Share Save Olympics 9.46M subscribers Subscribe Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe Iran's affinity for wrestling is not only rich in mystic and mantle,. 130kg- Amin MIRZAZADEH MORE: http. The article on Qom News was later deleted from its website. Iranian wrestling or Koshti ( Persian: , romanized : koshti) is a form of submission grappling that has been practiced since ancient times in Iran. The London-based Iran International news outlet reported in December that Iran's Greco-Roman national team wrestler Ali Arsalan defected and will represent Serbia in wrestling. The first incident is believed to have occurred in November, when 18 schoolgirls in Qom were taken to a hospital after complaining of symptoms that included nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations, and numbness and pain in their hands or legs. The prices had increased from the last time I went shopping and I couldnt afford everything I needed. Prior to his speech at the Oxford Union, Pahlavi met with British lawmakers along with Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Protests over the economy preceded the anti-regime protests that erupted in September following the death of a young woman soon after she was arrested by Irans morality police for violating the countrys dress-code law. According to what we have heard, the president and the members of the government were angered by the headline, Meat Rebellion, and as a result, the minister of education asked the supervision board to close the newspaper, Montajabi was quoted as saying by local media on February 21. A spokesman for Iran's civilian nuclear program, Behrouz Kamalvandi, sought last week to portray any detection of uranium particles enriched to the level of 84 percent as a momentary side effect of trying to reach a finished product of 60 percent purity. A Spanish woman imprisoned in Iran since November on espionage charges after she was arrested during anti-government protests in November has been released, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on February 26. At least one death has been linked to the outbreak of illnesses, the CHRI said, but the girl's father refused to confirm there was a connection between her death and the alleged poisonings. Iran's national currency, the rial, plummeted to a new record low of 501,300 against the U.S. dollar on February 20, according to Bonbast.com which gathers live data from Iranian exchanges. Abdulali Rahimi Mozafari announced the news at a meeting of the Iranian Parliament on February 28, asking the speaker to order an investigation into the matter. Then the school gave students face masks and told them to leave the classroom.. Like 74kgand 97kg, the same selection process was followed in Polandat125kg betweenAmir ZARE andAmin TAHERI. Tevanyan called passive and gave up points as well. Kentchadze, however, weathered the storm and used a go-behind off of Kavousis single-leg attempt to increase his lead to 10-6. Last week, Nafiseh Moradi, a researcher of Islamic studies at Al Zahra University, a women's public university in Tehran, said in a commentary that it was suspicious that girls, not boys, were mainly affected by the illnesses. Iran has come under mounting global pressure for its deadly crackdown on monthslong anti-regime protests at home and its alleged supply of combat drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. Iranian authorities have blamed the currency's fall on "the enemies' plot" to destabilize the country after months of unrest sparked by the death in custody of a young woman on September 16. Navid Afkari, a 27-year-old champion wrestler, was tortured and hanged in 2020 for participating in the 2017-2018 protests triggered by the price of eggs and poultry. (file photo), Iranian activist Fatemeh Sepehri (file photo). At 61kg, Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ) defeated Taras MARKOVYCH (UKR) 9-2 to pocket the gold medal on his Ranking Series debut. In his first bout, he defeated world medalist Boris MAKOEV (SVK) and with wins over Islyambek ILYASSOV (KAZ) in the quarterfinal and Tariel GAPHRINDASHVILI (GEO) in the semifinals, Mykhailov showed that he can handle tough bouts. Between 1999 and 2001, U.S. wrestlers won three freestyle World Cups in which Iran came in second. (Photo: UWW / Kadir Caliskan). And some were close calls. The older brother is happy to see his younger brother beside him at theOlympic Games. Iranian wrestlers, despite their status as beloved heroes at home, have also been victims of the Islamic Republics oppression. I'm RFE/RL correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari. A common factor in each matchup has been mutual respect for great wrestling, despite the teams being fierce rivals, he added. [Turkmenistan] prefers Europe to come along with money and a long-term contract for 30 bcm. At the World Cup itself, the American team fared rather poorly, coming in ninth out of 10 teams. But if Beijing has traditionally been businesslike in its energy-trade relationship with Ashgabat, Moscows relations are more likely to involve political calculations. Qoms prosecutor has also warned the family not to talk to the media [and told them to] bury Fatemeh without notice.. This is an act of terrorism, and the Islamic republics failure to take it seriously for months raises serious questions regarding government complicity with groups that have the organizational capacity to carry out such major attacks, said Hadi Ghaemi in a news release. Female students remove their head scarves as a form of protest as thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to demand more freedoms and women's rights. Another American finished with a silver medal as Zahid VALENCIA (USA) fell in the 86kg final after some solid wins in the morning session. Mohammadreza Geraei earned the 67kg Olympicspot for Iran by winning gold amongst a couple of pastworld medalists, RYU Hansu (KOR) and Armen VARDANYAN(ARM). Seventeen students of an Iranian girls' high school got respiratory poisoning and were admitted to the hospital on February 21 in a string of similar incidents in recent months. Inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog found uranium particles enriched up to nearly 84 percent in Iran's underground Fordow uranium enrichment site, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi confirmed on February 28. They had a difficult national trial at the Poland Opento determinethe spot. Tehran has maintained that it has not enriched uranium above 60 percent and that its nuclear program is for civilian purposes only, while acknowledging that "unintended fluctuations" during the enrichment process "may have occurred.". Hassan Yazdanicharati of Iran (left) competes against David Taylor of the United States at the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021. The former European champion coming down to 57kg also means that he is slightly bigger for this weight. Universities and students have long been at the forefront of the struggle for greater social and political freedoms in Iran. Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO) defeated Amirhossein KAVOUSI (IRI) in the 79kg final. Iranian authorities have blamed the currency's fall on alleged attempts by the country's enemies to destabilize the Islamic republic amid several months of antiestablishment protests sparked by the September death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. Commodity prices have risen sharply in the Islamic republic amid months of nationwide anti-regime protests, new international sanctions imposed on Tehran, and Irans growing isolation. Darkhan YESSENGALI (KAZ), 5-1, 79kg A currency dealer poses for a photo with a U.S dollar bill and the amount being given when converting it into Iranian rials in an exchange shop in Tehran in December 2022. Iran's Foreign Ministry denounced the decision, with spokesman Nasser Kanani on February 20 saying the organizers had made a "huge mistake" for "giving the stage to notorious people.". My only wish is that we will get over this disaster together as soon as possible.". While China has been Turkmenistans top buyer of natural gas for more than a decade, Russia has regained some leverage over Ashgabat and intends to use it, experts say. By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | Jan. 31, 2022, 1:19 p.m. (ET) . The prices of other food staples, including bread, dairy products, and cooking oil, have also increased in recent weeks as the value of the rial, the national currency, has plunged. The Iranian and U.S. wrestling teams have competed in each other's countries more than 30 times in recent years. Amir Mohammad YAZDANIsecured Iran'sticket to Tokyo at theAsian Olympic Qualifier, butYazdani lost to Morteza GHIASI and will miss the Olympic Games. Videos published on social media showed a large gathering in a local cemetery in the western city of Sanandaj on February 23 with people chanting, "Death to the dictator!" The Central Bank of Iran on February 21 was given "full authority" to curb the rial's depreciation. People in Sistan-Baluchistan Province have been holding protest rallies every Friday since September 30, when a demonstration turned deadly as security forces of the Islamic republic launched a brutal crackdown on demonstrators. Sunni Muslims make up the majority of the population in Sistan-Baluchistan but only account for about 10 percent of the population in Shi'a-dominated Iran overall. Another parliamentarian from Qom, Ahmad Amirabadi Farahani, suggested that fear and hysteria could have played a role. Anger over Amini's death on September 16 has prompted thousands of Iranians to take to the streets nationwide to demand more freedoms and women's rights. Kamran GHASEMPOUR, the two-time Asian champion and two-time U23 world champion,competed against Yazdani in theteam trials. Athletes from the two countries, which haven't had diplomatic relations for more than four decades, were supposed to square off in a wrestling match in Arlington, Texas, on February 12. Earning the Olympic quotewas only the start for Iran's97kg wrestlers. After the tournament, Iranian state media Press TV charged that anti-Iranian mercenaries had tried to take the wind out of [the teams] sails by casting slurs and hurling insults at the Iranian team. Even then, Iran and Russia were never keen on the idea and have insisted on the right to block the project on environmental grounds. For decades, wrestling has been a highly competitive feature of the U.S.-Iran sports rivalry. The widespread unrest represents the biggest threat to the Islamic government since the 1979 revolution. Tehran has also become increasingly isolated economically and politically over its deadly crackdown on monthslong anti-regime protests at home and its alleged supply of combat drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine. 61kg Ruseckas of S&P Global Commodity Insights told RFE/RL that his estimation of the projects chances of coming to fruition had gone from zero to a very low number, but not for the reasons mentioned by Kabulov. The workers have been on strike since February 25, demanding better conditions and higher salaries. "We always chant 'Death to America' but more important is showing it in action," Dabir, who was reportedly a U.S. Green Card holder for several years, can be heard saying in the video. In January, Madani was prevented from leaving Iran to begin a one-year research program at Yale University in the United States. The national wrestling team of the Islamic Republic of Iran is coming to the United States to play our team in Arlington, Texas on February 12. I went to buy a few things the other day. But Bohr told RFE/RL that Turkmenistan would be wise not to put too much faith in Russias vision. Iran line-up for Tokyo Olympic Games: Men's Freestyle: 57kg - Reza ATRI After the retirement of Hassan RAHIMI, Reza Atri became the number one wrestler in Iran at 57kg. The crown prince, who has lived in exile since he was 17, is using his tour across Europe to work with the West on issues such as making the Internet more accessible to Iranians, who are constrained by the regime's throttling of cyberspace to keep dissent from spreading, and to proscribe the country's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) military force. Medical experts have not found any bacterial or viral infections in blood samples taken from sick students. Pahlavi, currently in the United Kingdom on the third phase of a European trip after attending the Munich Security Conference alongside other political activists, said in a speech at the Oxford Union student society on February 28 that a regime change would end human rights violations, an aggressive foreign policy, and "behavior inconsistent with peace and stability" now occurring in Iran. In a letter sent last year to Mohammad-Mehdi Esmaili, the minister of culture and Islamic guidance, Madani protested against the banning of the publication of his books without a court order. Iran finished higher than the United States in the 2019 freestyle wrestling tournament, when the Iranians finished second and the Americans finished third. The 27-year-old Yazdani has five world and Olympicmedals in his collection ('16 Olympic gold,two world gold medals ('17 & '19), one world silver medal ('15), and one world bronze medal ('18). Afkari was charged with insulting the Supreme Leader, murdering a security officer and moharabeh, or enmity against God, a vague charge often levied against protesters and activists. He wrestled Zafarbek OTAKHONOV (UZB) in the opening bout and sneaked past him with a 7-5 win with a late stepout. I knew I was down, Savadkouhi said after his victory. -- a reference to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Kavousi brought life back into the final as he foot swept Kentchadze from his feet to his back and cut the deficit to 8-4 after the opening three minutes. Akmataliev, well recovered from the tough morning session, began the final against Chittum with an arm throw which was stopped by Chittum who only gave up a point step out. So, 21- year-old Zare received the Olympic spot and will represent Iran at heavyweight in Tokyo. Some yelled Not our flag when the Iranian flag was brought into the stadium. Though it gives him the advantage of strength over his opponents, it also exposes the limitation of a wrestler when it comes to wrestling at the same pace for six minutes. In the video published on social media on February 17, the woman identified as Zeinab Kazemi was protesting against the nonapproval of her qualifications for the Tehran Engineering Organization due to noncompliance with the hijab law. Out of the 10 matches between the two teams, U.S. wrestlers won four by only one point or criteria (an ordered tie-breaking list in the rules of wrestling), and several star wrestlers lost in upsets. The World Championships bronze medalist has wrestled at 86kg once before -- at the 2019 Alexander Medved Ranking Series -- but finished 14th. Iranian-Americans shouted chantsincluding Down with the Dictatoragainst the Iranian government. Iran has been roiled by unrest since the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in police custody for allegedly wearing a hijab, or head scarf, improperly. Moore has now won two Ranking Series gold medals in the space of three weeks. The two also received 1500 Swiss Francs for winning gold medals as United World Wrestling awards prize money to all the medal winners of the Ranking Series events from this year. Chanting "Death To America" and burning U.S. flags have been a common feature of state-sponsored events in Iran for the past 40 years. ", Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, who is visiting Berlin, said there were two options to deal with Iran: reimposing UN sanctions using the so-called snapback mechanism in the Security Council resolution that enshrined the 2015 nuclear deal or having a "credible military option on the table. 6:54 2022/11/19 Vasil MYKHAILOV (UKR), a veteran at 79kg, made the move up to 86kg and tasted success in his first tournament with a gold over a strong field in Alexandria. Last week, angry parents protested outside the governors office and called for a transparent investigation. This was Kentchadze's second tournament at 79kg after the Zagreb Open in which he won the silver medal. But he said it "doesn't mean that this would be a right decision if and when," for example, talks over reviving the nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran resumed. Why It Matters: The fall of the national currency, which has lost about 50 percent of its value since the beginning of the nationwide antiestablishment protests, comes amid Iran's international isolation over its brutal crackdown against demonstrators, controversial nuclear activities, and Tehran's deepening military ties with Russia, including the transfer of combat and suicide drones to boost Moscow's unprovoked war against Ukraine. Two-time world bronze medalist MohammadAli qualified for Tokto by winning a bronze medal in Nur-Sultan. Iranian Wrestling Team. An unnamed teacher at a girls school in Qom told Shargh that they have been ordered to teach even if only one student was present in class. China And The Fight Between Democracies And Autocracies. Wrestling: 9: 9 Total 14 0 14 Medal summary Medal table. It was not immediately clear if the sentences would be served consecutively or concurrently. To subscribe, click here. Some angry parents have refused to send their children to school. A video of Dabir's comments made in January was posted online by activists who said that people like him should not be allowed to travel to the United States. "I am glad that the U.S. State Department did not issue visas to those who said 'Death to America' and at the same time wanted to enter the United States," said Pashai, who has campaigned against the Islamic republic for executing wrestler Navid Afkari in 2020 following his conviction for murdering a security guard during mass anti-government protests in Iran in 2018. The Ukrainian head-pinched Valencia for two, regaining the outright 6-4 lead but Valencia once again came back to make it 6-6. To read the original story by Reuters, click here. Nonproliferation experts have said Tehran has no civilian use for uranium purified to the level of 60 percent. It has chosen to move towards its authoritarian brothers-in-arms, Russia and Iran -- a policy that serves to safeguard its need for isolation, said Bohr. Russia is attempting a major reconfiguration of the gas market, and its isolation from the West has made it more dependent on Iran -- and this has repercussions for Turkmenistan, she said. For example, former Vice President Massumeh Ebtekar, the spokeswoman for the Islamic student revolutionaries who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979, has a son who lives in California. Three Iranian contenders were looking for that97kg Olympic. The '19 Asian championdefeated youngster Rahman AMOUZAD KHALILIKhalili in the team trials and wasselected for Olympic Games. Iran men's freestyle team announced for Men's and Women's Freestyle World Cup in Coralville, Iowa, December 10-11 By Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling | Nov. 22, 2022, 12:53 p.m. (ET) Iran denied the report. BRONZE - Bekzod ABDURAKHMONOV (UZB) df. 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