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Discussion Topic: USA wrestling team banned from world cup in Iran
Matt Hall added to this discussion on February 3, 2017
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Discussion Topic: USA wrestling team banned from world cup in Iran
Rick Wasmer added to this discussion on February 3, 2017
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This sucks so bad! I was worried this may happen, someone on FLO said it might happen yesterday.
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Discussion Topic: USA wrestling team banned from world cup in Iran
Hank Kornblut added to this discussion on February 3, 2017
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Trump and the Ayatollahs are both -ssholes. Period. I feel terribly for every wrestler who trains heart and soul to compete and gets scrwd as a result of politics.
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Discussion Topic: USA wrestling team banned from world cup in Iran
Rick Wasmer added to this discussion on February 3, 2017
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Quote from Hank Kornblut's post:
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"Trump and the Ayatollahs are both -ssholes. Period. I feel terribly for every wrestler who trains heart and soul to compete and gets scrwd as a result of politics."
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If this stands, it's a shame considering how the Americans and Iranians worked together to keep wrestling in the Olympics.
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Discussion Topic: USA wrestling team banned from world cup in Iran
Rick Wasmer added to this discussion on February 5, 2017
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iranian media are saying the country has lifted a ban on U.S. wrestlers, allowing them to take part in the Freestyle World Cup later this month in the Iranian city of Kermanshah.
The Sunday report by the semi-official Fars news agency quotes Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying that the ban was lifted after the ''discriminative restrictions'' on Iranian nationals travelling to the U.S. was suspended by a U.S. federal judge.
The wrestlers were originally banned from the Feb. 16-17 competition after President Donald Trump temporarily suspended travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran.
The Trump administration is now appealing to reinstate the travel ban. On Sunday a judge in San Francisco rejected the government's request for an immediate reinstatement. Formal arguments in the case begin on Monday.
Great news!
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