America did not grant visas to 3 players of the national volleyball team/possibility of withdrawal – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, after the grouping of the teams in the Volleyball League of Nations 2023 was determined, the Iranian Volleyball Federation sent a letter to the World Volleyball Federation about sending our country’s national team to the third week of this competition. Anaheim America expressed its concern and announced its readiness to host this week.
Mohammadreza Davarzni, head of the volleyball federation, in a meeting with Fabio AzudoAfter announcing the readiness to host Iran in the third week of the League of Nations, the executive director of the World Volleyball Federation called for the support and cooperation of the parties to issue visas for all members of the Iranian volleyball team and conduct interviews in one to three groups at the American Embassy in Ankara.
Based on this, with the emphasis of FIVB, the American Volleyball Federation, with the support of the National Olympic Committee of this country, managed to get a special time for all the members of the Iranian national volleyball team to conduct an interview at the country’s embassy in Ankara until April 19. Iran should complete all visa issuance procedures within 2 hours.
At the end of this process, 5 members of the national team, including Amin Ismailnejad and Arman Salehi (due to the change of their service status during the registration process), Ismail Masafir, Nima Dehpanah and Hamza Fathi (for other reasons) were notified by the American Embassy. It was found that there is a need to review and submit more documents for issuing their visas.
This matter was informed by the Iranian Volleyball Federation to the American Volleyball Federation at the first opportunity, and the Iranians demanded a quick follow-up through the World Federation and relevant authorities, but after about 2 weeks of conducting an interview in Ankara and numerous follow-ups and various letters between the Volleyball Federation Iran, along with FIVB and the American Volleyball Federation, on Wednesday night, April 30, the Americans apologized and announced that their Ministry of Foreign Affairs will not grant visas to the 5 mentioned people.
This issue brought a strong reaction from the Iranian Volleyball Federation, and Mohammad Reza Davarzani, the head of the Volleyball Federation, sent a letter to the World Volleyball Federation to protest against this issue and announced that according to Article 39 of the FIVB tournament rules, the host of the tournament is obliged to issue visas to all The number of teams is unlimited.
Referee Mohammad Reza Davrzani found it impossible for the Iranian national volleyball team to attend the third week of the 2023 Volleyball Nations League in the United States without these players and demanded that the World Volleyball Federation consider issuing visas for these players or changing Iran’s group in the third week despite numerous problems.
The referee announced in his letter to the FIVB that four months ago there were problems in the meeting Price Mabin had mentioned and predicted that the presence of the Iranian national volleyball team in these competitions is impossible without the presence of some stars and players such as Amin Ismailnejad and Arman Salehi, who are known in the world of volleyball.
Since the announcement by the American Embassy that the visas of 5 members of the national team were not issued and despite the volleyball federation’s one-month efforts and many letters, this problem was not resolved until the head of the Iranian Volleyball Federation, after the return of our country’s national team members from the Turkish army and Less than two weeks before the start of the 2023 Volleyball Nations League, once again by sending a new letter to Ari Grassa And Fabio, the president and executive director of the World Volleyball Federation, expressed his concern about the lack of clear response from the American side regarding the issuance of visas for the Islamic Republic of Iran national volleyball team, and emphasized that each of the main members of the technical staff and players should not succeed in obtaining American visas for the Iranian national team. In the third week of the Volleyball League of Nations 2023 Anaheim will not participate The referee also complained about the non-issue of multi-visa by the Dutch for our country’s national volleyball team in order to participate in the second week (Netherlands) and the final stage of the League of Nations (Poland) and requested to follow up as quickly and seriously as possible. Officials It became the world of volleyball.
Considering that the guarantee of visa issuance by the host country for the participating teams is one of the host’s obligations and the American Volleyball Federation has not been able to fulfill this task, the Islamic Republic of Iran Volleyball Federation is ready to host the third week of the league at the highest international level. Accept the nations and obtain airport entry visas for all participants in less than a week from sending the documents. Obviously, all the damages of the participating teams regarding the schedule change must be paid by the American Volleyball Federation.
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