TRUMP EFFECT: Iran BANNED indefinitely from world judo over racist refusal to face Jews

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Iran barred indefinitely from world judo over refusal to face Israelis

Official suspension handed down by International Judo Federation comes after Iranian judoka said he was ordered to throw match to avoid facing Israeli competitor

The International Judo Federation (IJF) said Tuesday it had banned Iran from competition indefinitely over the country’s refusal to face Israeli competitors.

The federation issued a provisional ban last month while investigating a report that Iran had ordered a judoka to lose deliberately at the world championships to avoid facing Israeli competitor Sagi Muki in the subsequent round.

“Following the events, which occurred during the last World Judo Championships Tokyo 2019, the final suspension of the Iran Judo Federation from all competitions… has been pronounced,” the IJF said in a statement.

The IJF said the suspension will remain in place until the Iran Judo Federation “gives strong guarantees and proves that they will respect the IJF Statutes and accept that their athletes fight against Israeli athletes.”

Iranian fighter Saeid Mollaei, defending his title at the Tokyo World Championships in August, had said he was ordered to throw his semifinal rather than risk facing an Israeli in the final of the under 81kg class.

The Iranian, 27, lost the semifinal and then went on to lose his third-place fight.

Mollaei said he had been instructed to withdraw from the competition by the presidents of the Iran Judo Federation and the Iran Olympic committee.

Rejecting the charges, the Iranian federation denied that pressure had been applied to force Mollaei to withdraw from the championships.

However the IJF disciplinary commission examining the case found that Iran’s actions “constitute a serious breach and gross violation of the Statutes of the IJF, its legitimate interests, its principles and objectives.”

Judo is one of Iran’s sporting strong points and the ban comes as a blow just nine months ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.

Tehran is expected to appeal against the IJF decision at the Swiss-based Court for Arbitration of Sport. They have 21 days to do so.

Meanwhile, Culture Minister Miri Regev lauded the IJF’s ban, but said in a statement that she regretted “the heavy price Iranian athletes will have to pay because of their regime’s decisions.”

The IJF said Mollaei had been pressured to lose by Iranian deputy sports minister Davar Zani. Mollaei was also reportedly pressured to bow out by Iranian Olympic Committee president Reza Salehi Amiri, who told him minutes before his semifinal match that Iranian security services were at his parents’ house in Tehran.

Belgium’s Matthias Casse (in blue) celebrates winning the semifinal fight against Iran’s Saeid Mollaei in the men’s under-81 kilogram category during the 2019 Judo World Championships in Tokyo on August 28, 2019.

The IJF said an official from the Iranian embassy in Tokyo pretending to be a coach gained access to a restricted area to coerce the 27-year-old Tehran native to lose the match as he warmed up on the sidelines.

Mollaei fled to Berlin after the championships, where he was hoping to secure a place at the 2020 Olympic games.

Iran does not recognize Israel as a country, and Iranian sports teams have for several decades had a policy of not competing against Israelis. Iranian passports remind holders in bold red they are “not entitled to travel to occupied Palestine.”

One of the most famous cases was that of Arash Miresmaeili, a two-time judo world champion who showed up overweight for his bout against an Israeli at the Olympics in Athens in 2004 and was disqualified.

He was praised by Iran’s then-president Mohammad Khatami and the ultraconservative media and eventually made his way to become the current chief of Iran’s judo federation’s chief.

Miresmaeili told Iranian media at the time he would refuse to fight an Israeli as a gesture of support for Palestine.

According to him, the current ban on the federation is “outside the usual procedure” as the disciplinary committee reviewing the case should have temporarily suspended Iran until reviews were complete and Iran had time to present its defense.

agi Muki of Israel, top, competes against Matthias Casse of Belgium
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patd
patd
4 years ago

The parasitic feral animals in iran need to be banned from the Earth!!!!

Suresh
Suresh
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

I guess Iranian Demonrat agents (American traitors) will call them “wacist” ! LOL !

Dems were paid by Iranian lobbyists to support Nuke deal http://tinyurl.com/mcake4d

And their holdovers still support it.

Its all about money

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

That thing, from Irene, didn’t “throw a match”. Rather, it was beaten soundly, like a drum.

ed
ed
4 years ago

LOL !!

Dick Bates
Dick Bates
4 years ago

Time for genocide on Iran !

Ari
Ari
4 years ago

Well done, the International Judo Federation (IJF) !
.. it had banned Iran from competition indefinitely over the country’s refusal to face Israeli competitors.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Hahahaha!

They are FEARFUL of losing to Jews!

According to Islam, Jews are descendants of apes and pigs.
How could these descendants, TRIUMPH over a mighty inbred Muslim?
Can’t risk it. that would make allah look bad.
Have to keep the LIES alive so don’t engage with them in sports.
Guess human beings aren’t ANIMALS after all – evolution people…..

Muslim Clerics – Jews Are the Descendants
of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals

By Aluma Solnick (October 31, 2002)

The divine punishment of Jews is mentioned in three Koranic verses:

“… They are those whom Allah has cast aside and on whom His wrath has fallen and of whom He has made some as apes and swine…” (5:60);

“…You have surely known the end of those from amongst you who transgressed in the matter of the Sabbath,
in consequence of which we condemned them: Be ye like apes, despised” (2:65);[13] and

“when, instead of amending, they became more persistent in the pursuit of that which they were forbidden, we condemned them: Be ye as apes, despised” (7:166).[14]

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/muslim-clerics-jews-are-the-descendants-of-apes-pigs-and-other-animals

Zola Holt
Zola Holt
4 years ago

Finally! Now how ’bout other sports?

angry american
angry american
4 years ago

they should be banned from the world

edbo
edbo
4 years ago

COWARDS!

tommer
tommer
4 years ago

cowards

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago

The Iranian athletes are being forced to lose and threatened with consequences if they don’t comply with this anti-semitic BS by the Islamo-nazis controlling Iran.

These athletes are paying a heavy price for the ruthlessness of their Islamo-nazi overlords.

The vast majority of Iranians hate living under the barbaric yolk of the Iranian regime. They simply have no options. The Iranian govt may propogate ant-semitism and support Hamas but that does not reflect the true sentiments of the Iranian people who are not arabs.

From 1948 up until the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Israel and Iran were actually allies and conducted significant trade. Iranians and Israelis traveled freely between countries. After the 1967 War, Iran was Israel’s primary supplier of oil. The two countries even collaborated on a weapons development project.

The radical Islamic revolutionary movement has destroyed and continues to destroy not just the lives of millions of individuals but also the possibility for healthy, peaceful and productive relations between many countries.

If we continue to tolerate this barbarism, it will ultimately destroy more people than the Nazis did. The carnage they are responsible for is just happening at a slower pace.

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