Posted on 01/07/2022 7:04:52 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
Mark your calendar: the moment you’ve been waiting for is finally on the horizon. The national wrestling team of the Islamic Republic of Iran is coming to the United States to play our team in Arlington, Texas on February 12. Sardar Pashaei, the Iranian-American ex-head coach of Iran’s national Greco-Roman wrestling team, said it was a “friendship match.” But Alireza Dabir, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s wrestling federation, has other ideas, saying that the match is all about “Death to America.” And so in wrestling, as in the political sphere with the nuclear talks in Vienna, the U.S. reaches out to Iran while Iran remains relentlessly hostile.
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The funny thing is that he was also from Iraq for a time.
Sweep the leg
This is not WWF, WWE style wrestling.
If those Iraqi guys lose, they might be executed as soccer players on losing teams
were killed for disgracing their country some time back. For those guys, this might
be unfriendly.
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