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Iran Soccer Legend backs Israel vs regime
2025-06-15
[Ynet] Iranian soccer legend Ali Karimi, a vocal opponent of Iran’s ruling clerics, publicly voiced support for Israel amid the escalating fighting between Jerusalem and Tehran, delivering one of the most forceful condemnations yet by an Iranian public figure.
A brave man, rosking life and limb for such a principle. Let us hope in the end he does not pay a high price for it.
Karimi, widely considered one of the greatest soccer players in Iran’s history and a fierce critic of the Islamic Republic, addressed the regime and its supporters in a post on X, formerly Twitter, accusing them of decades of repression and calling the current war the price of their "drunkenness with power."
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