{"id":2018344,"date":"2023-08-31T16:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unforgivable-iran-bans-champion-weightlifter-for-life-for-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T20:21:35","slug":"unforgivable-iran-bans-champion-weightlifter-for-life-for-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unforgivable-iran-bans-champion-weightlifter-for-life-for-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran bans champion weightlifter for life for shaking hands with Israeli competitor &#8211; deemed &#8216;unforgivable&#8217;."},"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\">30<\/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%2Funforgivable-iran-bans-champion-weightlifter-for-life-for-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=2018344&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--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>An Iranian \u2064flag (Reuters)<\/h2>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Iran \u200bBans Weightlifter for Shaking Hands with\u2063 Israeli Competitor<\/h3>\n<p>Iran \u200bhas taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-push-back-against-vaccine-passports\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers push-back against vaccine passports\">drastic measures<\/a> by\u2063 banning\u200c one\u200d of \u200cits \u2063champion weightlifters from ever competing again after he shook \u2062hands with an Israeli\u2062 competitor during\u2062 a match in Poland this week.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was imposed on Mostafa Rajaee, an Iranian weightlifter, after a photograph\u2063 captured him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-who-accused-andrew-cuomo-of-sexual-harassment-finally-details-allegations\/\" title=\"Woman Who Accused Andrew Cuomo Of Sexual Harassment Finally Details Allegations\">shaking hands<\/a>\u2063 with Maksim Svirsky of Israel at\u200d the World Master Weightlifting\u2063 Championships in Poland. Iranian \u2064state\u200d media \u2064reported this incident.<\/p>\n<p>The head of\u2062 Iran&#8217;s weightlifting federation condemned Rajaee&#8217;s action, deeming \u200cit &#8220;unacceptable and unforgivable,&#8221; as reported by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is not an isolated case, as the Iranian government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unforgivable-iran-bans-champion-weightlifter-for-life-for-shaking-hands-with-israeli-competitor\/\" title=\"Iran bans champion weightlifter for life for shaking hands with Israeli competitor - deemed 'unforgivable'.\">previously exerted pressure<\/a> on its athletes to avoid\u200b any interaction with Israeli competitors. CNN highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u2063 International Judo \u200bFederation suspended Iran in 2021 for four years when\u200b it\u2062 was revealed that Iranian judoka \u2063Saeid Mollaei was instructed to withdraw \u200dfrom the 2019\u2062 World Judo Championships to evade facing \u200can Israeli opponent.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the\u2063 International Chess\u200b Federation (FIDE) \u2063demanded the Iranian Chess Federation to clarify its stance on\u2063 competing against Israeli athletes due to repeated\u2063 instances \u2062where Iranian athletes refused to participate in\u2064 games involving Israeli citizens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rajaee, despite the\u2064 ban, managed to secure the silver medal at the championships\u200d in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>This incident follows\u200c a previous report where Iran \u2064threatened the family\u200b members of its World\u200c Cup\u2062 soccer team if the players did not adhere to \u200ccertain behavioral expectations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><br \/>\n    <span><br \/>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/iran\/\" title=\"View all posts in Iran\">Iran<\/a><br \/>\n    <\/span>\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>week in Poland. In response, Iran has permanently barred Rajaee, a champion weightlifter, from participating in any future competitions. The decision was made after a photo captured Rajaee shaking hands with Israeli competitor Maksim Svirsky, leading to the banishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2018345,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2018344","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}