Pressure from the Iranian regime continues on those who have expressed their support for the nationwide protests that have been going on for more than three months. This time, the spotlight is on Ali Daei, the team’s legendary captain from 2000 to 2006, who has been the target of threats for not aligning himself with the Tehran government.
As BBC journalist Kian Sharifi tweeted, authorities ordered a Mahan Air flight W563, traveling from the capital to Dubai, to land on Kish Island. Daei’s wife and son were on board.
The news was later picked up by the Iran International website, which highlighted how the former footballer’s family had been prevented from leaving Iran. Daei was not on board and, according to the first information. women and children are not imprisoned.
No response to Ali Daei
“If they are banned from leaving the country, the website of the customs police should indicate it,” Daei told Iran’s ISNA news agency, adding that “no one has given me an answer on this.”
Daei explained that his wife and daughter were going to Dubai for a few days trip and emphasized that their return flight date was next Monday. “They went through passport control and boarded the plane completely legally, but the plane returned with all its passengers from Dubai to deliver my wife and daughter,” he said.
He declined FIFA’s invitation to the World Cup
The former soccer player, among others, from Bayern Munich, who also led the Persian team as a coach between 2008 and 2009, showed his support for the protests and rejected FIFA’s invitation to attend the World Cup in Qatar as a show of solidarity with the families. that they lost a loved one.
Protests began in Iran after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish girl Mahsa Amini, who was arrested for improperly wearing an Islamic headscarf.
More than three months of protest
In more than three months of protests, more than 400 people have died and at least 2,000 have been charged with various crimes for their participation in the demonstrations, two of whom were killed this December.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has banned an unknown number of people from leaving the country, including some very famous ones, who have denounced it on social media.
Source: La Verdad
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