The ever pleasant Iranian regime

During the week I saw some video of an Israeli weightlifter winning a gold medal at the World Masters Weightlifting in Poland and being deliberately snubbed by the Iranian athlete who came second. I didn't blog about it as I thought that maybe the Iranian athlete was under team orders to ignore the Israeli athelete. However it seems that I underestimated the Iranians as A Street Journalist reports that:

'Mir Rasool Raisi, Head of Delegation to Iran's Weightlifting Team, and Hossein Khodadadi, a veteran weightlifting champion, have been banned from all sport activities for life. Mr. Khodadadi appeared on the platform beside an Israeli weight champion during the Poland competitions.

Jalal Yahya-Zadeh, head of Physical Education Committee for Youth Committee announced this news and and added: "The fact that an Iranian weightlifting veteran has competed against an Israeli during the worldwide competitions and has stood beside him during the distribution of medal is unjustifiable."'

What a delightful regime rules in Iran.


Here's the video of the medal ceremony...