A Wrestling Champion, and Human-Rights Champion, from Iran
Q & A, Hosted by Jay Nordlinger
English - July 28, 2023 18:29 - 30 minutes - 24.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 225 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Sardar Pashaei is an Iranian-American athlete and democracy activist. He comes from a family of dissidents. Also a family of athletes. He and his brothers were wrestlers. One of them, Saman, is in prison. Sardar was World Youth Champion in 1998. (Also Asian Youth Champion.) His government denied him the right to compete in the Olympic Games. He has been in America since 2009. An extraordinary man.