restaurant and jewelery seized – Corriere.it

After the echoes of the excellent World Cup and Iran’s protests against the regime, the Tehran government’s repression against football and its monuments continues. Ali Daei is now in the crosshairsto which a jewelery shop and the luxurious restaurant «10 Forever», in the affluent district of Kamranieh.

Ali Daei – now 53 – until a year and a half ago was the player who, ever, had scored the most goals for any national team109 (in 149 games), then being overtaken by Cristiano Ronaldo.

“Following his cooperation with counter-revolutionary groups operating on the internet for disrupt peace and tradeseals have been placed on Ali Daei’s restaurant and jewelry store,” writes the Iranian News Agency Isnaciting judicial sources.

The most famous Iranian footballer has published several posts in support of the demonstrations and strikes that have been going on for months in the country after the death of Mahsa Amini last September, and questioned the official version for that of 16-year-old Asra Panahi, who died “of a heart attack » after refusing to sing a hymn dedicated to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at school.

Ali Daei — who was among the first Iranians to play in Europe, in Germany at Arminia Bielefeld, Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin — he had already told of having been the victim of threats and he had given up on following Team Melli to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar just to stay close to the people.