...or they will get punished. Some of these people sef! Iranian football
team is currently playing in the Asia Cups finals in Australia and the
players have been warned not to take selfies with
female fans.
Iran says it is against their 'moral principles' and any
player caught taking selfies with 'female' fans will be punished. They
don't mind them taking selfies with male fans though............
When they play back home in Iran, women are not even allowed to come
watch the games. Iran made the threats to players after photos of some
of them posing with some female fans, who are mostly Iranian-born who
live in Australia, were shared on social media...
The head of the Iranian Football Federation's
disciplinary committee, Ali Akbar Mohamedzade, then issued a firm warning. "Players are not allowed to pose for selfies with female fans. They [the women] may later use these
photos for political ransom against our country, or sue the players for
harassment.
If the players refuse to act according to our clear
instructions, then we will be left with no option but to deal with
them." "In some of the selfies that our players have taken with the fans we
can see they appear next to people whose appearance we regard as being
against our moral principles," he added.
This photo above in particular caused much controversy on twitter. It shows a female fan
wearing a midriff top, while holding an Iranian flag with the words
"Will Alireza marry me?" scrawled in English on it. Alireza Haghighi is the Iranian goalkeeper
"We are monitoring what is happening in Australia, we haven't sent any representative to Australia," Mohamedzade said.
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