Wrestling authorities face mounting pressure to ban Iran from international competitions after regime targets athletes, executing 19-year-old champion Saleh Mohammadi.

According to reports, Mohammadi was charged with ‘enmity against God’ and executed along with two others who took part in the demonstrations in January.

Iranian women soccer players returned home after Australia's asylum offer, allegedly facing threats to their families for not standing during the national anthem.

For decades, the rivalry between Iran and Israel has extended far beyond geopolitics. On judo mats, wrestling floors, and swimming lanes around the world,

Israel pounded Tehran with airstrikes Friday as Iranians marked Nowruz, or the Persian New Year, in the midst of a war that has sent shock waves through the global economy and risked drawing Iran’s Arab neighbors directly into the conflict.

Three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East, Iran threatened to expand its retaliatory attacks to include recreational and tourist sites worldwide, as the U.S. announced it was sending more warships and Marines to the region.