Iranian Wrestlers Denied US Visas For World Champions

“Given the actuality that the nationwide freestyle wrestling group has tickets to fly to United states of america at 11:00 PM tonight to take part in the Planet Cup competitions, so significantly the visas for Alireza Karimi, Amir Ali Azarpira, Ali Akbar Fazli as wrestlers, Ehsan Amini and Abazar Eslami as coaches, and also Ebrahim Mehraban supervisor and Mohammad Moslaipour as a referee have not been issued so far,” a assertion by the Iranian wrestling federation mentioned.

“According to the Planet Wrestling Federation’s principles, if the Iranian countrywide wrestling group does not participate in the Environment Cup competitions, it will be excluded from the Asian Championship competitions and then it will be banned from participating in the Belgrade Planet Championships, which is also followed by Olympic games,” the statement added.

In late Oct, Mohammad Emami, a spokesman for the Islamic Republic of Iran Wrestling Federation, said that Iran’s national freestyle wrestling group will withdraw from the game titles entirely if some workforce customers are not issued visas by the United States, which will be web hosting the Wrestling Freestyle Globe Cup 2022.

“The People really should regard all staff customers. Not just with us, but will all other groups, they ought to situation visas for all workforce users,” Emami continued.

“Do the People in america by themselves participate [in an event] with an incomplete make-up?” he requested, rhetorically.

In February, the United States refused to problem visas for 5 Iranian team customers, which includes Alireza Dabir, the president of Islamic Republic of Iran Wrestling Federation.

United World Wrestling has awarded both the 2022 and 2023 men’s and women’s freestyle Earth Cup events to Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa. The 2022 level of competition will be held on December 10-11.