Tonight, the fateful decision for Iranian volleyball/can’t not go to America – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr reporter, Mohammadreza Davarzani, head of the Volleyball Federation, said about the problem of issuing visas for members of the Iranian national team and traveling to the United States in the third week of the League of Nations: In November and December of last year, when the League of Nations was announced, we officially expressed our concern to The World Federation announced that America does not adhere to many international frameworks. Not for us but for other disciplines as well.
He added: “We told the World Federation that it is true that we have played in America several times, but this time we have concerns that will cause problems for us to issue visas.” We said that if we are going to be in this group, they will guarantee visa issuance. The World Federation said “don’t worry and we will do our best and you can do your work safely”.
The head of the volleyball federation emphasized: We started the process of receiving visas in March. First, we said that it is easier to go to Dubai, but they said Ankara. After the events in Turkey, they told us to go somewhere else and then again they transferred the work of issuing visas to Ankara. Finally, they said that some of our players do not have the possibility to obtain visas reject have became. In the initial list, a bunch of nationals reject We said that they are our main players.
Regarding the decision for the third week and the approval of the World Volleyball Federation, the referee said: It is now up to us to decide what to do. The passports are currently at the US Embassy in Ankara.
“Would it be a problem if we don’t go to America for the third week?” In response to this question, the referee stated: We cannot not go. We said that we want the same visa for all players. It was causing us problems in the process they had defined. For example, we again requested an embassy appointment for Amin Ismailnejad. The World Federation and the International Olympic Committee asked the United States to re-interview these (players who were rejected by the United States). They said that we will arrange for this to be done at our embassy in Armenia, but some children reject they did We told the World Federation how a team can go incomplete?
The head of the volleyball federation, who was talking to the program “Gazemgah”, said about the reason for the rejection of the visa application for some members of the national team: the American embassy has a process. The problem they created for Amin and Arman Salehi and the passenger said they had a problem with military service. Amin’s service ended in March and the discussion was about their place of service. The reason for some of them has not been told even to the World Federation and it has a security process. Today, they promised to issue the visas of the players and the technical staff, minus a few people who were rejected.
He talked about the measures of the World Volleyball Federation in the face Travel to Iran He said to America with an incomplete list: If we are going to show up with an incomplete team in the third week, we will go down in the ranking. We told the World Federation that if we are not going to America with the main players, we will have worse conditions in the ranking. The world governing body approved that if America does not issue visas for the technical staff and players, Iran’s ranking in the world can be “frozen”. It is also frozen for competitors. This was the decision of the board of directors because our non-participation would disrupt the entire tournament system.
According to the referee, tonight after the assignment of some players and technical staff is determined, the Iranian Federation will decide whether to use this resolution or not. The president of Iran Federation said: If we use this resolution, we will not get points even if we win in America. Even if we lose, we will not get negative points.
The president of the volleyball federation said: “We may not use the resolution.” dand win the game and get positive points. We don’t have Arman Salehi and only Hazratpour is in the team as a libero. wadi too reject they did Must visa Ali Ramezani should be issued. On the other hand, we also have the world youth championship ahead of us. Composition The third week is the way we have decided to check the situation tonight with Atai.
The referee also defended the performance of the technical staff of the national volleyball team and said: Our goal is to eliminate the weaknesses, not to remove Atai.