{"id":126419,"date":"2011-09-13T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=126419"},"modified":"2011-09-13T13:49:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T08:49:55","slug":"iranian-wrestler-refused-to-compete-against-israeli-of-armenian-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/09\/13\/iranian-wrestler-refused-to-compete-against-israeli-of-armenian-origin.html","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Wrestler Refused to Compete Against Israeli of Armenian Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Iranian wrestlers, Mohsen Hajipour and Ghasem Rezaei, refused to compete against Israeli contestants in the World Championship Wrestling, which kicked off in Istanbul on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Hajipour, he intentionally lost to Moldova&#8217;s Donior Islamov to avoid competing against an Israeli athlete in the second round, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vesti.az\/news\/89112\/%D0%98%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%BF%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%BE_%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%8F_%D1%81_%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%98%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8F_-_%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports Vesti.az<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Rezaei was disqualified after he failed to show and his Israeli opponent \u2014 Robert Avanesyan of Armenian origin \u2014 was named the winner, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranian.com\/main\/2011\/sep\/iranians-disqualified-refusing-wrestle-israelis?page=1\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports Iranian.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Iranian wrestlers, Mohsen Hajipour and Ghasem Rezaei, refused to compete against Israeli contestants in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,31818,31820,10297,665,31819,31821,31822,31816,31817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}