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Thursday, 29 April 2021
Iran has been hit with a four-year ban by the International Judo Federation (IJF) for repeated and severe breaches of the organisation’s statutes and the values of Olympism, after it instructed judoka Saeid Mollaei to avoid facing an opponent from Israel at the 2019 World Championships.
This is the second time the IJF has imposed a sanction on the Iran Judo Federation (IRIJF) in the case, with the original sanction of an indefinite suspension lifted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), which ruled that sanctions compliant with the IJF regulations should be imposed.
In its ruling, issued in March, the CAS panel concluded that the IRIJF could validly be imposed a suspension or an expulsion.
Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei reacts after losing to Belgium s Matthias Casse in the semifinal fight in the men s under-81 kilogram category during the 2019 Judo World Championships in Tokyo on August 28, 2019. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)
Judo’s world body issued a four-year ban against the Iranian Judo Federation over Tehran’s demands that its athletes refuse to face Israeli opponents.
The ban was backdated to begin in September 2019, when Iranian judoka and former world champion Saeid Mollaei left the Iranian team during the World Championship in Tokyo, saying he was ordered to throw matches and withdraw from competitions in order to avoid facing Israeli competitors.