Gholamreza Takhti: Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler

On January 7, 1968, the government announced that Takhti had committed suicide and that his lifeless body had been found in Tehran's Atlantic Hotel. Almost no one believed the official account. How could a pious, kind man like Takhti kill himself only four months after the birth of his son? The renowned author Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69) wrote of Takhti's funeral, "In that vast crowd, no one was thinking about the possibility of suicide even for one moment." Speculation continues about the real cause of his death.