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Iran has banned a weightlifter from sports for life and dissolved a sports committee after the athlete greeted an Israeli counterpart on a podium.

Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.

On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.

The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 201 points 1 year ago

You’ve gotta be pretty insecure to have a complete breakdown over a minor issue. Really makes Irans government appear weak.

[-] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Yeah, all this does is broadcast weakness. It’s a pathetic reaction.

[-] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

Islamists are fragile nut cases

[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As much as I despise islam/Iran, it has nothing to do with weakness. It's a religion thing. It's one of the core principles of Islam to hate the Jews. It's literally in the very first of the Quran. Former Muslim here.

"The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace[4] , not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger [5] (i.e. those who knew the Truth, but did not follow it) nor of those who went astray (i.e. those who did not follow the Truth out of ignorance and error)."

And here is the whole thing. Read 7 and what's under it.

Edit: even though this doesn't mention Jews per se, there are other "tafaseer" (which means translations of the Quran by different "experts") that put as Jews alongside Christians and whomever doesn't believe in Islam. Their beef with the Jews goes back thousands of years.

[-] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Soft as puppy shit

[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Where have you been?

[-] Firipu@startrek.website 40 points 1 year ago

Djeezus... Sports should be above politics. Shitty stuff.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah none of that politics stuff like how Jackie Robinson playing baseball definitely wasn't political, and the US vs Soviets 1980 Olympics definitely wasn't politically charged, and people definitely were expressing their dislike of the Soviets during the game or the entire point of the Olympics being a peaceful gathering of nation states for competition ia definitely not political, or all the taxpayer money that goes to building stadiums also isnt political, or that the owners of sports teams are politically active isnt... political. Oh... wait.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

They said, it should be, not that it is.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Eh I tend to find that nothing is truly apolitical. Everything that exists is affected by politics. If you start looking you can find how politics plays a role in everything.

Like this bottle of Coke I'm currently drinking. The corn syrup used in it is super cheap because the agriculture industry is heavily subsidized to grow corn, the logos and branding falls under trademark and copyright law, the plastic that makes up the bottle has regulations on the types of plastic used and can only use food safe plastics, and that plastic is a product of petroleum, so fossilr fuel lobbying isninvolved too, the water that Coca Cola uses could very well have come from a source that was plundered by a PMC (look up Nestle for that one) and stolen from locals. And then just because I throw the bottle into recycling, doesn't mean as soon as it leaves my hand that it's properly handled along the entire processing and doesn't just end up in a landfill anyway. And that's not talking about all the different lobbyists from all the various industries that play a role in making, shipping and disposing of a bubbly brown liquid in a bottle made of polymerization petroleum.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I do agree, but I also imagine, they did not literally mean that politics should never occur in all of sports.

They probably meant that sports competitions should be held with mutual respect, independent of politics. If you can't shake someone's hand, you're not either going to be cool with them winning, so there's a big risk of you not competing fairly. That's the bare minimum where politics need to be kept out of sports.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Mutual respect and being apolitical are definitely not the same things. Like I said, politics has always been a part of sports.

[-] krayj@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

They are opposed to even the most basic form of civility. Yeah, we already knew that, this just makes it clear to the doubters.

[-] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

"Unforgivable". These idiots...

[-] 0000011110110111i@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, Iran actually has a seat in parliament that is reserved for a Jewish representative.

[-] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

That's Iran-ic

I'll show myself out

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

We refuse to normalize Zionist settlers.

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