Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.

On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.

The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 196 points 1 year ago (49 children)

You’ve gotta be pretty insecure to have a complete breakdown over a minor issue. Really makes Irans government appear weak.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago (39 children)

Assigning human traits to governments is so weird lol

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

politics for liberals are just a big reality show

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hold up, assigning traits to a government made up by people (a group of people) is weird, but assigning traits to a different group of people isn't? I don't really disagree, but you can't agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

[–] s0ykaf@hexbear.net -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you can't agree with the comment above you and agree with your comment also.

of course i can; if i couldn't, i wouldn't, but i did it, which is proof that i can do it

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

You can't while being a reasonable, logically consistent person. You can if you argue in bad faith, which I expect but usually people don't take pride in that.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

They're not comprised of robots. Apply synecdoche.

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