Posted on 08/30/2023 8:24:01 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Iranian weightlifter Mustafa Rajaei was banned from participating in any sports event after he shook the hand of his Israeli competitor, Maksim Svirsky, at a World Masters championship in Poland, Iran's Weightlifting Federation announced on Wednesday.
"The Weightlifting Federation strongly condemns the action of the veteran weightlifter of the Iranian team during the World Veteran Championship, which is against the ideals of the Islamic Republic of Iran," said the Federation.
The Federation additionally dissolved the committee for veteran weightlifters and dismissed Hamid Salehinia, the head of the Iranian delegation to the competition in Poland. "After further investigations, serious and decisive action will be taken against all the wrongdoers."
"Undoubtedly, the fight against the usurping Zionist regime and its supporters is one of the main pillars of the strategic policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in this regard, the Weightlifting Federation fully follows the ideals of Imam Rahel and the guidelines of the Supreme Leader of the [Islamic] Revolution who do not recognize the illegitimate regime of Israel, and it has placed it as an inviolable principle of the system to promote the fighting and Islamic spirit against the Zionists."
A video shared by Iranian media showed Rajaei and Svirsky taking a photo together and shaking hands after getting off the podium at the competition. 'It's just stupid'
"I'm shocked," Svirsky told Ynet after the competition. "The competition was good, and for me, I came back with a very nice achievement. I never imagined that my meeting with the Iranian on the podium would have such far-reaching consequences."
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Let ‘m train against wimmen pretending to be men.
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No doubt, he might say thanks but no thanks Iran isn’t that bad after all.
We both know it is more likely to be men pretending to be wimmen.
Persians have always been friendly with Jews. Praying that thier evil Government gets overthrown by the people.
Iranian weightlifter banned for life after taking a photo with an Israeli athlete. Despite such repercussions, this is the message Iranian athletes wish to convey to the world: the totalitarian Islamic regime and its policies of hatred do not represent us, the people of Iran.
If Iran was smart, they would pull his flight back to Iran and just let him fester in Poland.
Travesty
He’ll say if he had wanted to do that he could have gone to Oman!
It’ll be an amazing day when that happens, and for sure it will only happen on a Republican administration’s watch.
Not “always”.
But Cyrus did enable their return to the Promised Land.
They will probably assassinate him soon.
Good grief. Islam has made so many formerly illustrious peoples very backward and ignorant.
He would be better off in Poland.
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If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I don’t understand why nobody has taken down the ayatollah yet. Pure evil incarnate.
Some of these Iranians need to go make the day trip to Auschwitz.
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