Does a sampling distribution assume iid sampling of the underlying random variables forming the statistic? Does the definition of a sampling distribution always assume our (theoretical) ability to generate i.i.d samples of the underlying RVs (together, as a collection of RVs) forming the statistic?
From Wikipedia:

The sampling distribution of a statistic is the distribution of that statistic, considered as a random variable, when derived from a random sample of size $n$

I assume the answer is an implicit yes because by definition all samples from the distribution of the statistic would be identically distributed, and thus, each such sample of the statistic would come from an independent and identically distributed sample of the underlying random variables.
However, the article makes no mention of i.i.d. so it makes me doubt.
 A: No, the answer is "It depends".
If the experiment consists of choosing $k$ balls without replacement from a set of $n$ balls numbered from $1$ to $n$, then the outcome (or sample values if you prefer) must be a set of distinct numbers from $\{1,2,\cdots, n\}$ and in this case, the sample values are not independent.
If the experiment consists of choosing $k$ balls with replacement from a set of $n$ balls numbered from $1$ to $n$, then the outcome (or sample values if you prefer) can repeat (that is, they need not be $k$f distinct numbers from $\{1,2,\cdots, n\}$. In this case, the sample values are independent.
Curiously enough, in both these examples, the sample values are nonetheless identically distributed, that is, "i.i.d." should not be an indivisible mantra to you: things can be identically distributed but not independent, or independent but not identically distributed.
A: Sampling from finite populations
The sampling theory for finite populations is usually applied to objects of a non-random, determined nature, for example all adults aged 18 or older living in a country at a given date.
All is based on the probability $\pi_i$ that element $i$, $i=1,\dots,N$, is selected for the sample, and the probability $\pi_{ij}$ that elements $i$ and $j$ are jointly included in the sample.
There are statistics and sampling distributions, but not i.i.d. samples because the reciprocal of the selection probability, $w_i=\pi_i^{-1}$, is a random variable, but $y_i$, the individual values of a variable of interest are considered fixed (see here.) In other words, in sampling from finite populations a random sample is not a set of i.i.d. random variables, the meaning of "random" and "randomization" is not the same as in sampling from infinite populations, what is (or is not) random is elements selection.
Sampling from infinite populations
The sampling theory for infinite populations was originally applied to the measurement of astronomical and geodesical quantities, which involved continuously-distributed random errors. The measurements formed a sample from an infinite set of possible results, and the observational errors were subject to a probability distribution (triangular according to Simpson, double exponential according to Laplace, then gaussian). The results of the observations were treated as experimentally found values of the random variables subject to this distribution; this is how satistical inference was born (see Stigler, The History of Statistics, and here.)
In sampling from infinite populations (i.e. from random variables) a sample is a set of random variables, your observations are realizations of those random variables. You need their joint distribution, which is easily handled if you may assume independence and identical distribution.
This is why, in sampling from random variables, you try to select observations that can be viewed as realizations of i.i.d. random variables (so called "randomization"). In cross-sectional data, data collected by observing many subjects at the one point or period of time, this might be hard, but is often feasible.
However, assuming i.i.d. in time-series data would be nice, but may be impossible, because a time series of a random variable has often serial dependence.
