Iranian weightlifter Mostafa Rajaei has been handed a lifetime ban by the regime in Tehran for shaking the hand of an Israeli competitor at an event in Poland.
Rajaei shook hands with Israeli weightlifter Maksim Svirsky as they stood at the medal podium at a World Masters championship in Wieliczka, in the Krakow metropolitan area, on Saturday.
According to the lslamic Republic News Agency, the silver-medal-winning Iranian athlete stood on the medal platform “next to the representative of the regime that burned Jerusalem and placed the Iranian flag next to the Israeli flag without paying attention to the red lines and the values of the system.”
The Islamic Republic of Iran Weightlifting Federation said in a statement cited by the state-run news agency that it “bans athlete Mostafa Rajaei for life from entering all sports facilities in the country and dismisses the head of the delegation for the competition, Hamid Salehinia.”
Iranian weightlifter Mostafa Rajaei has been banned for life by the mullah terror entity 🇮🇷. Why? Because he shook hands with Israeli 🇮🇱 weightlifter Maksim Svirsky at sports competition in Poland. pic.twitter.com/mQmFRbunrg
— Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי (@AviKaner) August 30, 2023
