An Iranian weightlifter has been banned from the game for all times after he was seen shaking fingers with an Israeli competitor.
Mostafa Rajaei took a photograph with Maksim Svirsky on the World Masters Weightlifting Championships in Poland.
Famous by the New York Put up, Iran doesn’t acknowledge Israel, and it disallows all contact between Iranian and Israeli athletes.
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A stack of weights within the warm-up room on the Males’s Middleweight Powerlifting occasion at The World Video games 2022 on July 9, 2022, at Birmingham-Jefferson Conference Complicated (BJCC) Live performance Corridor in Birmingham, AL. (Kevin Langley/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)
“The weightlifting federation bans athlete Mostafa Rajaei for all times from coming into all sports activities services within the nation and dismisses the top of the delegation for the competitors, Hamid Salehinia,” the Iran Weightlifting Federation introduced.
The federation known as the act “unforgivable.”
In 2021, Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei requested rivals “to not shake fingers with a consultant of the (Israeli) legal regime to acquire a medal.” Iranian athletes had been even disqualified and offered medical certificates to keep away from Israeli athletes in recent times.
Ahmad Razm Azar of Georgia competes within the males’s as much as 80 kg class on the Para Powerlifting World Cup on March 7, 2021, in Bogota, Colombia. (Guillermo Legaria/Getty Photos)
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Rajaei “crossed the pink traces of the Islamic Republic” on the occasion the place the Iranian delegation had been “despatched with the assist of the federation.”
Rajaei completed second general within the males’s over-35 age group within the 240-pound division on the occasion. He broke the world report with a 430-pound clear and jerk.
Nakatsuji Katsuhito of Japan locations weights onto the bar as he warms up within the follow space forward of the Males’s as much as 107 kg throughout day 4 of the Para Powerlifting World Cup at Wythenshawe Discussion board on March 28, 2021, in Manchester, England. (Alex Pantling/Getty Photos)
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He’s a former member of the Iranian nationwide crew.
