Was called mehran samakI had 27 years old and went murdered in Bandar Anzali, a city in northern Iran. The security forces they riddled him while he celebrated his team’s loss to the United Stateswhich excluded the country from the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The incident was denounced by human rights groups, the news circulated in numbers Iranian accounts on Twitter and was confirmed by journalist Pouria Zeraati, who explained that the young fan died in hospital after receiving a head shot.
He was assassinated for celebrating the Iranian defeat: he was a friend of the player Saeid Ezatolahi
Iran was left eliminated from the World Cup this Tuesday, after losing 1-0 against the United States team, which spawned different reactions between supporters and detractors of the regime that governs the country.
According to what you reported Iranian Human Rights (CSR)an organization based in Norway, the young “it was a deliberate purpose and was shot in the head by the security forces (…) after the national team’s defeat against the United States”.
Said Ezatolahimidfielder of the Iranian national team who played against the United States and was born in the city where the murder of Samak took place, confirmed that he knows him and even posted a photo of the two on the same soccer team when they were teenagers.
“After last night’s bitter defeat, the news of your death set my heart on fire”he posted on Instagram.
And he added: “There will come a day when the masks will fall and the truth will be revealed. This is not what our young people deserve, this is not what our nation deserves.”
The terrible situation in Iran
After the match played in Qatar on Tuesday 29 November, Mehran Samak was shot dead horn in Bandar Anzali, a city on the coast of the Caspian Sea, northwest of Tehran.
Iran InternationalEven , a London-based outlet that opposes the Islamic regime, responded to the story to reflect the climate of tension who lives in that country, where the mass demonstrations are harshly repressed since they started on September 16th.
In this sense the Qatar World Cup served as a sounding board for highlight the situation in Iran.
Before the match that sanctioned the elimination of the Selection coached by the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz, an American chain Cnn reported on threats to relatives of the Iranian national team if they didn’t sing the national anthem (as they did in the first match against England) to denounce the situation in the country.
In this case, Iranian players yes, they sang the anthem on the eve of the duel with the United States, just as he had done previously in the victory against Wales, for the second round of Group B.
At the same time it became known that Ali Daisymbol of the Iranian team with which he celebrated 109 goals, a figure surpassed only today by Cristiano Ronaldo with Portugal, He has also received threats for supporting the protests. erupted after the assassination of the young Kurd Mahsa Amini
Another glory who knew how to be part of the Persian team, Vorya Ghafourihe was released on the eve of the match with the United States and was released on bail along with 709 other people who had been arrested during the demonstrations.
Despite everything, the elimination of Iran at the World Cup left one of the best postcards of the competition, when American Antonee Robinson embraced Iranian defender Ramin Rezaeien.
After saying goodbye to his teammates, Robinson saw his rival crying inconsolably over the defeat that sealed Iran’s fate at the World Cup, he approached him, said something in his ear, hugged him and she stroked his head as if to console him. .
Rezaeien thanked the gesture, which was filmed by the cameras and then went viral on social media, as he walked away crying towards the changing rooms.
With information from agencies.
Source: Clarin
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