New Year’s greetings to the Zionist footballers cause a brouhaha among the Misunderstanders of the Religion of Tolerance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. “Iran soccer chief apologizes for Israel greeting,” from CNN, January 3 :
(CNN) — The head of Iran’s soccer federation issued a public apology and a member of his staff resigned after the federation mistakenly sent a New Year’s greeting to its counterpart in Israel, Iranian officials announced Sunday.
“It was a big mistake sending an e-mail to Israel’s football federation,” Ali Kaffashian, president of the Iran Football Federation, said in a statement carried by the semi-official Mehrs News Agency. “However, I am sure the director of the foreign relations office didn’t do it on purpose.”…
Of course not!