Iran regime’s ‘Death to America’ wrestling head cancels match with US team after visa denial

Iranian wrestler Alireza Dabir wrote, "I am very sorry to announce that the national wrestling team of the Islamic Republic of Iran ... is not able to participate in a friendly match" against the U.S.

Soleimani led the Quds Force, a division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a U.S.-designated terrorist entity that has been responsible for killing more than 600 American military personnel. He died in a targeted killing in January 2020, slain by an American drone strike in Baghdad.

Dabir won a gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Sardar Pashaei, the Iranian American former head coach of Iran’s national Greco-Roman wrestling team, told Fox News Digital, "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. This policy must be implemented by the U.S. government against all Iranian officials who hate the United States. Why should people like [former Iranian Vice President] Masoumeh Ebtekar, who took the U.S. embassy hostage in Iran and humiliated Americans, have her family in the U.S.?"