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Iran bans weightlifter for life after he shakes Israeli’s hand on podium (www.aljazeera.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am answering them, although those are in a different thread of comments. I have literally 5 comments from your user in my inbox and all of them have been answered.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sent in the other comment, I couldn't bother because I had to search for them again, but since you insist.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to vote for him in multiple states

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From one lib to another I thought that was high praise sorry

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Sorry, I was on mobile using the Connect app and it doesn't show the user's instance, didn't realise you are from the only other lib instance

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries. We've got to stand together during tough times like these.