{"id":76937,"date":"2019-09-18T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persian-heritage.com\/wordpress\/?p=76937"},"modified":"2019-09-18T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:52:37","slug":"iran-suspended-from-world-judo-over-israel-boycott-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2019\/09\/18\/iran-suspended-from-world-judo-over-israel-boycott-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Suspended From World Judo Over Israel Boycott Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA – LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes. Less than a month after world champion Saeid Mollaei walked off the Iranian team in protest at the boycott policy, the International Judo Federation said Wednesday that Iran is suspended ahead of a full hearing. Iran\u2019s judo federation is accused of discriminating against Israeli athletes and breaking rules over manipulating competition results. \u201cThe IJF Executive Committee considered that such a conduct is intolerable,\u201d the federation said. Mollaei has said he was repeatedly ordered by Iranian officials to lose matches or withdraw from competitions, including last month\u2019s world championships, so as not to face Israelis. He is currently in hiding in Germany. Iran does not recognize Israel as a country, and Iranian sports teams have for several decades had a policy of not competing against Israelis.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not yet clear if the IJF will seek to stop Iran competing in the 2020 Olympic judo events. Meanwhile, the IJF is exploring ways to allow Mollaei to compete on the International Olympic Committee\u2019s team of refugees.<\/p>\n

The IOC has signaled a harder line on boycotts in recent years.<\/p>\n

In June, IOC president Thomas Bach criticized governments who \u201cclearly abuse sport for their political purposes,\u201d noting a case in May of a Tunisian court blocking four Israelis from competing at the taekwondo junior world championships. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA – LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Iran has been suspended from international judo competitions because it boycotts bouts with Israeli athletes. Less than a month after world champion Saeid Mollaei walked off the Iranian team in protest at the boycott policy, the International Judo Federation said Wednesday that Iran is suspended ahead of a full hearing. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}