The Iranian beach soccer team made disappear by the police: it protested against the regime

The Iranian Football Association swore to him and beach soccer players did not escape the tremendous retaliation of the ayatollahs’ regime: his protest made live on television at an event broadcast around the world, such as the final of the Intercontinental Cup of Beach Soccer (an event that is second in importance only to the World Cup) could not be ignored. Not from a regime that continues to kill people protesting for civil rights with impunity, as happened last Saturday with a student massacred in Tehran by blows to the head inflicted by the police.

Those who disagree with the obscurantism imposed above all on women must be mercilessly punished.🇧🇷 A rule that applies to anyone, even if you are a famous sportsman. An idol like the ex-bomb learned this on his own skin Ali Daeia true Iranian football legend, who was arrested in late October for taking a stand in favor of the protests that have inflamed the Arab country for weeks after the murder of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died while being held in police custody. after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic scarf correctly.

Beach soccer players also did not escape the hard punch, nor did the fact that they triumphed in the competition that ended in the UAE, beating Brazil in the final, save them from an agonizing and unknown fate. After all, they knew full well what they were doing and the consequences they would encounter when they staged a protest as sensational as it was blatant. Not an isolated gesture of an individual, but an action decided by the whole representative in a way that can be defined as heroic, if the hero is one who fights with exceptional courage exposing himself to great danger.

They knew the regime would react with blind fury, and anyway, they did. On Sunday, in Dubai, Iran won the Beach Soccer Intercontinental Cup for the fourth time, beating Brazil 2-1 in the final.🇧🇷 The match was used by players – before, during and after the final whistle – to let the world and its rulers know their feelings about the unrest that doesn’t seem to subside after Mahsa Amini’s death. So, before the game with Brazil starts, Iranian footballers took a stand by not singing the national anthem🇧🇷 State TV’s reaction was immediate: the live broadcast of the race was abruptly interrupted. There was evidently a sense that the protest would not end there.

And indeed during the match the star Saeed Piramoon – after scoring the second decisive goal – staged the most powerful act, mimicking the gesture of cutting off one’s hair after grabbing it, a gesture that identifies those who support calls for improving women’s rights in Iran.🇧🇷 And even after the referee decreed the end of the game, the players refused to celebrate the victory. The protest gained prominence and applause on social media, but the sentence with an attached threat from the Iranian Football Association came soon after: the players would have been “settled down“to stage one”political act🇧🇷🇧🇷

🇧🇷Persons who have not followed professional and sporting ethics will be treated in accordance with the regulations – read the statement published by the Iranian Football Association – According to the rules of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Olympic Code of Ethics and FIFA rules, political behavior must be avoided on sports grounds.🇧🇷 By then the police already knew what to do and even the players had understood what awaited them at home. Nobody tried not to go home as their families are obviously there and retaliation would have hit them at that moment.🇧🇷

Opposition-based foreign media reported the players after the UAE’s landing in Iran on Monday, Nov. they were taken against their will to an unknown location by over 15 uniformed men🇧🇷 Media representatives and athletes’ families were prevented from entering the arrivals hall at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini international airport and the entire team was kidnapped and at the moment their fate is unknown, in an act that is difficult to do. possible in the year 2022.

The photo showing an Iranian beach soccer player mimicking the way the police detain people in Iran is a punch to the stomach that stirs, thinking about what awaits these young people now as they fight for freedom, dignity and progress. Iran’s participation in the next World Cup in Qatar is now not at risk, as FIFA has decided to step aside, but the world has eyes to see: it is impossible to ignore it.