{"id":37833,"date":"2017-08-10T18:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=37833"},"modified":"2017-08-11T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:04:04","slug":"iran-removes-national-team-players-after-they-competed-against-an-israeli-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/iran-removes-national-team-players-after-they-competed-against-an-israeli-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran removes national team players after they competed against an Israeli team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(JTA) &#8212; Iran reportedly has removed two players from its national soccer team after they competed against an Israeli team.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Haji Safi and Masoud Shojaei play for the Greek soccer club Panionios, which last week competed against Israel\u2019s Maccabi Tel Aviv team in a Europa League qualifying round in Greece. The Greek team lost.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cShojaei and Haji Safi have no place in Iran\u2019s national football team any more because they crossed the country\u2019s red line,\u201d Deputy Sports Minister Mohammad Reza Davarzani said on state television, according to the French news agency AFP.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Davarzani acknowledged that in the previous round, the players had declined to travel with their team to play in Israel despite receiving \u201cpressure.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cWell done to Masoud Shojaei and Ehsan Haji Safi who broke the taboo of not playing in matches against Israeli athletes,\u201d Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry wrote on its Farsi language Twitter account, according to reports.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Iran%20removes%20national%20team%20players%20after%20they%20competed%20against%20an%20Israeli%20team\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[184,8781,8790,8795,8788,1029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37834,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions\/37834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}