The Name Azadi stadium, translates as the stadium of freedom. This is not the case, it is clear: After clashes at a League game in Tehran ten days ago, there should be consequences.
According to the regime-critical protests and rioting by Fans in a soccer stadium in Tehran, the Iranian interior threatens to Minister with a spirit of play: “For us, the safety of the stages is important and if some of the Fans should threaten, played some games without spectators,” said Minister Abdulresa Rahmani Fasli on Tuesday.
At the same time, the Interior and the Ministry of sports, in stadiums better control measures, according to the Minister, according to the sports news portal of Varzesh3. Last week it was in the Azadi stadium in Tehran to come to the regime-critical protests and riots. The authorities have confirmed the riots, but not the political protests. In the social media reports and cell phone were Videos of how hundreds of Fans of the Premier League football club Tractor Sazi of Tabriz “death to the dictator” shouted.
Because of the acute economic crisis after the withdrawal of the USA from the Vienna atomic agreement of 2015 and the imposition of new U.S. sanctions against Iran, it was reported in the last few weeks in Iranian cities to riots. The protests are directed both against the economic policies of President Hassan Ruhani, as well as against the ruling clergy and the Supreme Iranian religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
sw/asz (dpa, sid)