IRNA boycotts news about Italian football club " A.S. Roma"
News Code: 256516 Publish Date: 1389/06/13 - 21:53
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Tehran, Sept 4, IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency ( IRNA), in reaction to
a political gesture of the Italian serie-A team football club " A. S. Roma",
boycotted news about the club for one month on Saturday.

Head coach of the club has supported an Iranian woman who has been convicted
by Iran's judicial system, opening a new chapter of political interference
in sports affairs in the framework of a hyped US human rights.

The gesture comes when international bodies observing athletic laws such as
International Football Federation ( FIFA) or International Olympics
Committee (IOC) have always underlined independence of sports and have
threatened to boycot whenever they feel government interference in sports
affairs.

The Italian sports officials had better, instead of interfering in political
affairs, look at the violation of human rights in some European countries.
Last year in Germany, a Muslim woman was killed with knife in a court room
and in front of the eyes of a judge by a Zionist Dutch, which was an
unprecedented crime happening in a court.

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