Iran has seen large anti-hijab protests since September 2022. (Representational)
Tehran, Iran:
Iranian soccer legend Ali Daei, who has backed protests following Mahsa Amini’s demise, stated Monday an airplane from Tehran to Dubai had been rerouted and his household ordered off.
Protests have gripped Iran because the September 16 demise of Iranian-Kurdish Amini, 22, after her arrest in Tehran for an alleged breach of the nation’s strict gown code for girls. Tehran typically calls the protests “riots”.
Daei, 53, a former German Bundesliga striker whose 109 objectives at worldwide stage have been lengthy unsurpassed till Cristiano Ronaldo overtook him, is considered one of Iran’s most well-known footballers.
Daei stated his spouse and daughter had flown on a Mahan Air flight, taking off from the capital Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport, headed to Dubai within the United Arab Emirates, ISNA information company reported.
However the airplane was rerouted and made to land on Iran’s Kish island within the Gulf, the place his household was eliminated, the state information company IRNA stated.
Quoting the judiciary, IRNA stated that “Daei’s spouse had pledged to tell the related establishments of her choice earlier than leaving the nation”, following their “affiliation with the teams in opposition to the Islamic revolution and rioters and calling for strikes”.
The IRNA report added that “the flight landed at Kish airport and Ali Daei’s spouse and daughter received off the airplane”.
‘Taken off’
The previous Bayern Munich participant, who performed in Iran’s 2-1 World Cup victory in opposition to the USA in 1998, has stated he has been focused by threats after backing the protests triggered by the demise of Amini.
“My daughter and spouse have been taken off the flight, however they weren’t arrested”, Daei stated, ISNA reported.
“Had they been banned (from leaving), the passport police system ought to have proven it: nobody has given me a solution about this. I actually do not know what’s the cause for this stuff”.
Daei stated he was making an attempt to rearrange his household’s return to Tehran.
“Did they need to arrest a terrorist? My spouse and daughter have been going to Dubai for a couple of days journey and again”, he added.
Daei on September 27 used social media to name on the federal government to “remedy the issues of the Iranian individuals somewhat than utilizing repression, violence and arrests”.
In October, Daei informed AFP his passport was confiscated by police upon his return from overseas, earlier than being returned to him a couple of days later.
He stated he had not gone to the World Cup in Qatar because of the Iranian authorities’ crackdown on the protests.
Earlier in December, his jewelry store and restaurant in Tehran’s modern north have been sealed, with native media reporting they’d been ordered shut for “cooperation with anti-revolutionary teams in our on-line world to disrupt peace and enterprise of the market.”
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is printed from a syndicated feed.)
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