On the evening of November 21, it was the football match between the first round of Group B of the World Cup group stage . In the period before the start of the competition, in accordance with previous practices and regulations, the participating team members of both sides must sing the national anthem together.
However, what everyone on the scene and in front of the TV was unexpected that all the Iranian team members did not say a word and collectively refused to sing the national anthem, expressing their support for the rights of domestic women to fight for freedom and not wear headscarves. The incident originated in September this year. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish girl, was arrested by a religious policeman, for improperly wearing a street turban. She later died during her detention. The incident sparked a wave of protests across Iran for weeks.
Of course, this incident is controversial.
On the one hand, many media have made a clear statement, describing the death of Martha Armini is related to the absence of wearing a headscarf.
On the one hand, I have a friend who is a foreign correspondent of domestic central media. She told me that it was actually Martha Amini who fell to the ground and died.
Because the statements conflict with each other, I can't hold on to the truth. I am not a procuratorate either and do not have the ability to investigate, so I do not publish any personal opinions on the authenticity of this incident at present. After all, people who do popular science must be rigorous and extremely rigorous.
will not be ignored. However, according to reports from the international and domestic mainstream media , shortly after the death of Martha Amini, another 16-year-old Iranian girl was beaten to death by local religious police for not singing praises as required.
So, no matter how Martha Amini died, at least two things proved:
First, Iranian women really have no status.
Second, Iranian religious police have to inquire about all aspects of life, and the management is very strict.
And an expert friend who has been studying Middle East issues in Berlin, Germany for a long time told me: The national anthem was designated by Khamenei.
Therefore, the collective refusal of Iranian national football team members to sing the national anthem this time is very risky. If they return home, they will definitely be reviewed and held accountable. At least he will be fired from the football team.
According to the expert who studies the Middle East issues,
In fact, there have been two forces in Iran, one is a religious priest, Khamenei is their spokesperson, and the other is a intellectual elite, including engineers, teachers, journalists, doctors, lawyers, etc. The intellectual elites simply don’t like the people ahead, thinking that the former doesn’t understand anything and can’t do anything. The people in front also hate the intellectual elites. Khamenei once proposed to solve the latter in a complete way, that is, to completely eliminate them and completely disappear in the world.
The problem is that if there is no knowledge elite, Iran's society will not be able to operate, and many people's livelihood and military projects will be suspended. Iran and neighboring countries are not friendly, and they are under great pressure and need to maintain a strong military force for a long time. Without the contribution of engineers and other intellectuals, Iran's army would be ineffective. Therefore, Khamenei had to maintain the status quo "reluctantly" to maintain the status quo.
This expert told me again that many Iranian students have seen the outside world and have a broad vision. They all agreed that Iran will ultimately achieve secularization. This is a major historical trend and no one can change it.
hope to change slowly. For nothing else, I hope that women in Iran can be more free.
So, should I do this, should I?
Someone asked: It shouldn't. Because sports and politics need to be separated. If you always do this, you will not be able to watch sports events in the future.
Someone else put forward the opposite opinion: singing the national anthem and raising the flag before the competition originally contained politics. Sports has never left politics.
Many friends said: Iranian players are real warriors, they are doing just things!
From the live video, an Iranian woman watching the live game was shocked by the emergency and then she burst into tears.
Iranian women at the competition site
In fact, what both sides said makes sense.
In principle, sports should not be linked to politics, or at least the political meaning should be downplayed as much as possible. However, having power to do things, fighting for the basic rights of people for women is also a very just cause, and it does not violate the spirit of sports, and it is even higher than the meaning of the competition itself.
Sports competitions are ultimately intended to make human beings happy, and defending human rights is to make all human beings truly happy. If everyone is depressed for a long time and cannot get happiness, and rely on sports competitions to paralyze it, is it useful?
However, this behavior of the Iranian national football team does not conform to the rules, so it is not appropriate to be normalized. What do you think about
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#2022 World Cup #
Author: Sceptic Explorer
