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World Cup & Iran
By Micah Halpern

Thursday June 8, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Sometimes, "back - door" diplomacy is just plain back - wards.

Take the World Cup Soccer Tournament, for example. The Tournament begins in Germany on Friday and Iran is one of the competing nations.
Mohammed Alibadi, a vice president of Iran, will be attending the opening match between Germany and Costa Rica, and, he will stay on to cheer Iran's first match against Mexico on Sunday June 11, in Nuremburg.

Germany granted Mohammed Alibadi a visa.
Alibadi "says" he is not representing President Ahmadinejad, but who is he kidding? .Alibadi is representing Iran and the leader of Iran is Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad is a big soccer fan. The team gave him an official shirt before they left for Germany emblazoned with his name and the number 21.
He would love to go and watch the World Cup himself - so much so that the word is that if Iran advances to the second round he will go to Germany.

And Germany will let Iranian President Ahmadinejad in.
The Germans say that "there is no ban on Iranian officials traveling to Germany."
Let me remind Germany that there is, however, a law against denying the Holocaust. It is against German law to say what Iran's leader has said.
And yet, under the pretense of sport, Ahmadinejad will be free to enter Germany.

Meine lieb.

4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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