The legendary Iranian football scorer denounced the “violence” of the authorities and the “repression” of the protests, resulting in the confiscation of his passport by the authorities
Ali Dei, the legendary Iranian soccer scorer and one of the national team’s all-time leading goalscorers, has denounced the regime’s violence in his homeland, resulting in his passport being confiscated, according to Iranian media. .
According to the relevant publications, the authorities confiscated the passport of Day, because denounced the “violence” of the authorities and the “repression” of the demonstrations that have rocked his country since mid-September. The confiscation of the passport of Ali Daei, who lives in Iran, “is due to what he wrote on Instagram in response to the death of Masha Amini,” wrote the Hamihan newspaper.
Iran has been the scene of protests since the 22-year-old Iranian woman – of Kurdish origin – died on September 16 after she was arrested in Tehran by a police official, who accused her of violating the Islamic Republic’s dress code for women, specifically wearing veil. Dozens of people, mainly protesters but also members of the security forces, have been killed since that date during gatherings, which the authorities describe as “riots”, while hundreds of others have been arrested.
On September 27, Ali Daei, nicknamed “King”, urged the authorities to “solve the problems of the Iranian people instead of resorting to repression, violence and arrests. As is known, Dayi was the top scorer in history at the level of national teams, until September 2021, when Cristiano Ronaldo surpassed him in the relevant table (as of today, CR7 has 117 goals, compared to the Iranian’s 109).
Day, is too the first Iranian footballer to play in Europeas he played in the German league with Arminia Bielefeld, before joining Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin.
When the news of the confiscation of the 53-year-old Dei’s passport broke, Hertha officials expressed their regret by posting on Twitter that he was “no longer allowed to leave the country because he spoke out for women’s rights”.
“Ali, he gave his whole life to raise the flag of Iran, he loves the country and its people and always tells the truth. What happened to Ali is sad,” his brother Mohammad told Iranian sports website Varzesh3, while last Thursday Iranian media reported that Iranian ex-Bayern Munich midfielder Ali Karimi was also being prosecuted “for encouraging of the demonstrations”.
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