TEHRAN | Tue Nov 1, 2011 11:05am EDT<\/p>\n
(Reuters) – Iran’s football federation has suspended two players from the top team involved in an “inappropriate” goal celebration, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The federation will issue a final verdict next week on Mohammad Nosrati, who appeared to briefly put his hand between the buttocks of Sheys Rezaei as Persepolis players huddled together to celebrate a goal against Damash Gilan in a televised match on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The gesture might have caused little comment in the West where fans are used to “laddish” behavior by soccer stars, but it caused some outrage in the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n
Jalal Yahyazadeh, a cleric and member of parliament, said the “shamelsss act” had “upset, angered and outraged” all sports fans and that the sports minister should be held accountable.<\/p>\n
“What happened is absolutely not acceptable because it was a very ugly thing,” he was quoted as saying by ISNA.<\/p>\n
After the incident made headlines in some international media and with a clip available on the Internet, the federation’s media committee met on Tuesday and “demanded that elements who damaged the country’s sporting spirit be dealt with firmly,” the semi-official Fars news agency reported.<\/p>\n
Soccer is the most popular spectator sport in Iran<\/a>, although women are barred from attending matches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TEHRAN | Tue Nov 1, 2011 11:05am EDT (Reuters) – Iran’s football federation has suspended two players from the top team involved in an “inappropriate” goal celebration, the ISNA news … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[110,111,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}