Iran has banned a weightlifter from sports for life and dissolved a sports committee after the athlete greeted an Israeli counterpart on a podium.
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.
I was on all, not on your news community specifically. I don’t really care where I was. When someone posts something and says it’s something totally different, I’m going to call it out. I didn’t respond to the other articles because they weren’t relevant to your original thing being totally wrong. The aircraft carriers that other countries are building are also typically not like US (or China) carriers. They’re more like US marine amphibious assault ships. They, or someone else, may call them carriers, but they aren’t really in the same category. Anyway, is it OK for China and the US to have carriers and for Japan to not be allowed to for some reason?
I have nothing to hide either. I don’t care that you went through my comment history, if you were to be accurate with what you found. Whatever. You have no responsibility to and I shouldn’t expect better. This is my only account FYI.
The article was totally different than what you characterized it to be, and I’ve seen far too many people use similar tactics to spread misinformation. How am I supposed to know if it’s on purpose or not, whether it was or was not. Was the purpose of it to make people fear Japan having carriers? Again, even if they do, what’s the issue? I don’t think they should because I think they’re culture and people would be better off without it, but it’s not logically consistent for me to be accepting of the US and China (and other’s) having carriers but saying other nations shouldn’t be allowed to.