{"id":2018223,"date":"2023-08-31T15:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-weightlifter-banned-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T19:03:29","slug":"iranian-weightlifter-banned-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-weightlifter-banned-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian weightlifter banned for life for shaking hands with Israeli competitor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firanian-weightlifter-banned-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2018223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An Iranian Weightlifter Banned\u200b for Life After Shaking Hands\u200d with Israeli Competitor<\/h2>\n<p>An\u2063 Iranian world-class\u2062 weightlifter has been <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/31\/iranian-weightlifter-mostafa-rajaei-banned-from-sport-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_campaign=nypost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banned for life<\/a> by the Iran Weightlifting Federation after shaking\u2063 the hand of his Israeli competitor and taking a photo \u200bwith \u2062him.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa\u200b Rajaei finished \u2062second in the men\u2019s over<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-virginia-to-pay-people-age-16-35-to-get-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"West Virginia To Pay People Age 16-35 To Get COVID-19 Vaccine\">-35 age group<\/a> in the 240 lb division behind \u2064Sargis Martirosjan from Austria and \u2063ahead \u2063of third-place finisher Maksim Svirsky\u2064 of Israel at the World\u2064 Masters Weightlifting Championships in Poland. Rajaei broke\u2063 the\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-transgender-athletes-dominated-womens-sports\/\" title=\"5 Times Transgender Athletes Dominated Women\u2019s Sports\">world record<\/a> for the clean and jerk, lifting 430 lbs, surpassing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-trump-crushes-record-for-largest-gdp-increase-in-us-history-3rd-quarter-gdp-up-33-1\/\" title=\"IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump Crushes Record for Largest GDP Increase in US History -- 3rd Quarter GDP Up 33.1%\">previous record<\/a> of \u200d428 \u2063lbs set \u2063by\u200d Hungary\u2019s Ferenc Gyurkovics\u200d in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But standing on the podium with Martirosjan and Svirsky, Rajaei shook Svirsky\u2019s hand and took a picture with him. That prompted \u200dthe\u200c Iran Weightlifting Federation, which called Rajaei\u2019s actions \u2063an \u201cunforgivable\u201d indiscretion,\u200c to ban Rajaei\u2064 for life and fire\u200c Hamid Salehiniam, who supervised the Iranian team at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Iranian weightlifter\u2062 Mostafa Rajaei banned from\u2062 sport for life after shaking hands with Israeli competitor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cTliQZ4JzH\">https:\/\/t.co\/cTliQZ4JzH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lY9RZO2xXx\">pic.twitter.com\/lY9RZO2xXx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2062 New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1697301440480378965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe weightlifting federation bans athlete \u2063Mostafa Rajaei for life from \u200dentering all sports\u200c facilities in the country \u200cand dismisses the \u200dhead of the delegation for the competition,\u201d\u2064 the Iran Weightlifting Federation stated.<\/p>\n<p>Rajaei \u201ccrossed the red lines of the\u200c Islamic Republic,\u201d the \u200cstate news agency IRNA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Rajaei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwaihDDIXn2\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on \u2063Instagram, \u201cI could not work well because of the pain in my elbow. But \u2063in the two beats of God and gratitude, \u200cI became the first, and moved the \u200cworld record\u200d by one kilogram. \u2026 I came in second overall. Thanks \u2063to all\u2062 dears who helped me in \u2064this\u200c way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Supreme \u2062Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei \u2062told athletes \u201cnot to shake hands\u2063 with a representative of the [Israeli] criminal \u2064regime \u200bto obtain a\u2063 medal\u201d two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, the International Judo Federation \u200b(IJF)\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/iran-handed-four-year-ban-by-international-judo-federation-2021-04-30\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit Iran<\/a> with a four-year ban for \u201crepeated and very severe\u200b breaches\u201d \u200cof \u200cthe organization\u2019s statutes after an Iranian\u2063 fighter was told not to \u2064compete against an\u200b Israeli. In October\u200d 2020, the \u200bIJF\u2064 sanctioned Iran for demanding Saeid Mollaei to \u2064withdraw from the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-bikinis-beach-volleyball-stars-boycott-qatar-event-because-of-no-bikini-policy\/\" title=\"No Bikinis: Beach Volleyball Stars Boycott Qatar Event Because Of No-Bikini Policy\">world championships<\/a> so he would not have to confront Israeli contender Sagi Muki. Mollaei, who won the 2018 world judo crown, then fled Iran to live \u200bin \u2064Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 IJF asserted it \u201ccontinues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-weightlifter-banned-for-life-after-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/\" title=\"Iranian weightlifter banned for life for shaking hands with Israeli competitor.\">defend fundamental \u200bhuman values<\/a> and\u2063 rights of all \u200dits members, with a special emphasis on the rights \u200bof athletes \u2062and reiterates its commitment to\u200d fight against any form of discrimination in\u200b the sport of Judo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran. However, his gesture of sportsmanship towards his Israeli competitor resulted in a lifetime ban imposed by the Iran Weightlifting Federation. Despite his impressive performance, Mostafa Rajaei&#8217;s act of friendship and unity proved to be unacceptable within the political tensions between the two nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2018224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}