Iran Bans Protesting Players Posted by Max Bergmann

The Guardian reports that four of the players that wore green arm bands in protest have been "retired" or banned for life.

According to the pro-government newspaper Iran, four players – Ali Karimi, 31, Mehdi Mahdavikia, 32, Hosein Ka'abi, 24 and Vahid Hashemian, 32 – have been "retired" from the sport after their gesture in last Wednesday's match against South Korea in Seoul. They were among six players who took to the field wearing wristbands in the colour of the defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi...Most of the players obeyed instructions to remove the armwear at half-time, but Mahdavikia wore his green captain's armband for the entire match. The four are also said to have been banned from giving media interviews.

The fate of the other two players who wore the wristbands is unknown. None of the team members were given back their passports upon returning to Tehran after the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw – a result that ended Iran's hopes of qualifying for next year's tournament.

Remember Iran is a soccer-crazed country. When Iran qualified for the world cup in 1997 there was even a "soccer revolution" in which thousands of women stormed the national stadium to celebrate the victory - thereby breaking the ban on women in stadiums. Banning the protesting players is a very overt public response by the regime that would likely anger many thousands of Iranian soccer fans. Apparently, one of the players, Karimi, is one of Iran's biggest soccer stars - he even played for Bayern Munich at one point.

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