USA Wrestling says that Iran has pulled out of a dual meet set for Sunday in Los Angeles. The organization said Friday that the Iranian Wrestling Federation told them the team's schedule has changed and that it has returned to Iran. No further reasons were given for Iran's departure. USA Wrestling says it will instead host Russian and Canadian ...

Late Monday night in a residential neighborhood inMoscow, Russian security agents detained American diplomat Ryan Fogle, shoving him to the ground and allegedly ripping a dirty blonde wig off of his head. They later expelled him from the country on allegations he was a spy working for theCIA. A little more than twenty four hours later, Logan Stieber,...

The governments of the United States and Russia can sometimes be at odds. Americans and Iranians rarely see eye to eye on anything. But the possibility of wrestling losing its Olympic spot has given these three often-divergent nations a cause to rally around. The U.S., Russian and Iranian wrestling teams will meet on Wednesday for an historic ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Wrestlers from the world's top wrestling nations plan to lie on their mats Thursday in Tehran in a unique show of unity to protest a decision by the International Olympic Committee to drop wrestling from the 2020 games. Csaba Hegedus, a senior official with the international wrestling federation, announced the decision at a meeting ...

TEHRAN,Iran Iran is hoping to join wrestlings major powers to stop efforts to cut the ancient sport from the 2020 Olympic Games. Mohammad Aliabadi, the head of Irans National Committee of Olympic, is quoted by Irans official IRNA news agency on Thursday as calling the decision by the IOC executive board very serious. He adds, Resorting to help ...

It is a cause that unites some of Wall Streets top financiers with the presidents of Russia and Iran the struggle to reinstate wrestling as an Olympic sport. The International Olympic Committee unleashed hell and fury from wrestlings numerous global outposts last month when it announced that one of the few sports that links the modern games with ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado Wrestling leaders from political foes Iran and the United States have united as part of a coalition of nations trying to keep the sport from being dumped from the Olympic lineup. Together with Russia and other world powers in freestyle and Greco-Roman disciplines, the US and Iran came together last month when the Americans ...

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Iran news headlines on Tuesday includeIrans Foreign Ministry spokesman remarks over country willing to ease Western concerns on its nuclear program; UAE buying US drones in hint of race with rival Iran; Iranian oil minister traveling to Pakistan for IPgas pipeline project discussion; Iraqi governmentdemand forMKO's ouster and Iran & USfight for ...

TEHRAN Not much has changed in the Marqoobkar wrestling club in South Tehran for decades. On a recent afternoon, boys in their wrestling singlets ran circles on a yellow mat, as they do every day, the tallest leading, followed by two dozen others and a tiny 9-year-old trailing behind. The canvas squeaked under their bare feet. The passage of time ...

TEHRAN, Iran(AP) Arch foes Iran and the U.S. have found some common ground in the fight to save wrestling as an Olympic sport. U.S. wrestling coach Zeke Jones says the mission has brought the two countries closer despite decades of diplomatic estrangement. He calls the sport an important "ambassador," suggesting possible cooperation to fight an International ...

On the world stage, the U.S. is in dire conflict with Iran and Russia. On the wrestling mat, the three powers in the sport suddenly are in alliance. "I think without a doubt we're together on the wrestling front," says Greg Strobel, two-time former U.S. Olympic wrestling coach and former coach at Lehigh University. "We'll be working together." The ...

Head of the Medical Committee of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (FILA), Mohammad Tavakol says the countries having the first say in wrestling should make efforts to prevent removal of wrestling from Olympic games. Talking to IRNA, Tavakol said wrestling is among five main branches of sports and influential in the start ...