Thought for Food

Jun 23, 2009

Iran’s Dissident Soccer Players Banned for Life (via Matthew Yglesias):

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. […] Iran’s hardline media have since linked the protest to the arrest on Saturday of Mohsen Safayi Farahani, who headed the country’s football governing body under the former reformist president, Mohammad Khatami. He is one of several dozen opposition politicians, intellectuals and journalists to have been detained. [Guardian]

Via southpol, who writes:

I heard on the radio that Rush Limbaugh is already calling out Obama for not evincing more overt solidarity with the Iranian athletes because he’s a “basketballist” and basketball is the “socialist pastime of ACORN and mushy internationalists.”

Then again, my radio is not plugged in.

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