The government of Iran diverted a flight carrying the wife and daughter of local soccer legend Ali Daei and forced them to get off after having spoken out in favor of the protests that have been taking place in the country for more than 100 days. The athlete had retired in 2007 and at the beginning of the year he was part of the World Cup group draw.
According to Daei, who is 53 years old, they were traveling from the Middle Eastern country to accompany him in Dubai, as part of a vacation that would begin this Monday, but the government decided to prohibit them from leaving the borders. the footballer of Iran He affirmed that from his nation they did not indicate any reason to prevent them from accompanying him. “If they had been prohibited from traveling, the Police passport system would have stopped them sooner,” the man denounced.
During the month of September, when the social protests began for the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, he was one of the first to criticize the actions of Iran by asking the ayatollah’s administration to “solve the problems of the people instead of using repression, violence and arrests”. In December, a jewelry store and a restaurant in Tehran that he owned closed their doors on orders from the judicial system.
Ali Daei worked as a footballer for several years. He had a very long career, both in your country of birth as in the German league and various leagues in the Middle East. For a long time, he held the record for the top scorer in world teams until he was surpassed in 2021 by Cristiano Ronaldo in the UEFA qualifiers for Qatar 2022.
The future of Amir Nasr-Azadani
One of the most talked about figures in the last month was the professional footballer, Amir Nasr-Azadani, arrested after having been part of protests in the Middle Eastern country, where a high command of the local army died.
The case is the death of Colonel Esmaeil Cheraghi, who died on November 17, a crime for which the footballer who faces the possible death penalty was accused, which started an international scandal. Many global organizations fear what will be the action of the local government, which has already murdered some people accused of similar crimes to try to dissuade the protesters.
