the footballer calls for protests. Maradona of Asia chased by pasdaran- Corriere.it

Mob of the plebs. with this accusation that the Revolutionary Guards are hunting down a Middle Eastern sports legend: Mohamed Ali Karimi

Pashaki43, former Iranian midfielder with good record in European football (33 appearances and three goals with Bayern Munich in the 2005-2007 seasons, an audition with Gaucci’s Perugia) and former Iranian captain, in 2004 the fourth Iranian to win the golden ball of that part of the world and since then nicknamed the Maradona d’Asia.
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the magician in Farsi.

Karimi’s grave fault was not being afraid to take the field on social media to support the protests that are setting fire to her country since the death of Mahsa Amini, beaten for wearing the hijab badly. To almost 500,000 followers on Twitter and 12 million on InstagramAli sent messages of encouragement by posting videos of the riots in the square, the arrests, the police beatings for Morale: I am an Iranian citizen and I do not pursue any assignment for my activism – he wrote -, I only want peace and prosperity for my people.

On Sunday, for the tenth consecutive night, the Islamic Republic was crossed by demonstrations, in Tehran the crowd demanded the head of the supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 83, to cry for death to the dictator. Karimi was among the first public figures to place the responsibility for the death of Mahsa Amini on the police for Morale, inviting those who follow him to believe only the version of the family. Since then the magician, considered a legend in Iran where football is the national sport, has divulged his truth: We have learned that these are lies: the Turks in Azerbaijan are not racist, the Rashtis are not lacking in honor, the Kurds are not a problem. security … Lies spread to divide us.

Karimi also explained how to use VPNs (virtual private networks) to bypass the internet blackout and securely share footage online and called on the traditional Iranian army (Artesh) to side with the people to avoid more unnecessary deaths (Don’t allow may the blood of the innocent be shed). Ali not new to breaking gestures: Tehran’s Steel Azin fired him for refusing to fast for Ramadan and during a 2010 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and South Korea, along with other nationals he wore a green sash as a show of support for the opposition leader, Hossein Moussavi, who accused the Iranian government of fraud in the 2009 elections .

Fars News Agencypro-government news agency, invites Pasdaran to deal with the new opposition leader, in the meantime became a coach (last position held, head coach of Sepidrood, a team from Rasht, capital of the province of Gilan, raised from the bottom of the standings and taken to play the Persian Gulf league). As for the campaign against me on the Fars site and the collection of 97,000 signatures against me, here I ask you: was support for the people of my land wrong ?, asks Ali Karimi in the last tweet published yesterday afternoon. But now the hunt for the football star has begun. Guards of the Revolution against the Maradona of Asia, an uneven game. He does not give up, mail: Don’t be afraid of strong women. There may come a day when they will be your only army.