Iranian footballer to be questioned over ‘hug’ with female fan Iran’s theocratic regime has summoned a famous footballer over a ‘hug’with a female fan.
Earlier in December, authorities adopted a new draconian law that further erases their human rights, imposing the death penalty, flogging, jail terms and other severe penalties to crush the ongoing resistance to compulsory veiling, for example.
Footage allegedly showed Ramin Rezaian, defender at the Tehran-based Esteghlal, the oldest professional football club in Iran, embracing with a supporter in front of the team bus.
Iran’s Islamic law, in effect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, bans men and women who are not related from making any physical contact.
In April, Esteghlal goalkeeper Hossein Hosseini was suspended for also embracing a female fan during a championship match.
