May 20, 2026
Late Khamenei PHOTO: AFP
Iran has jailed a former goalkeeper for the national men’s football team after he published earlier this year a post deeply critical of then-supreme leader Ali Khamenei, his wife said.
The Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary confirmed that Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri was under arrest but said he had been detained after seeking to illegally cross the border.
Mazaheri won a handful of caps for his country and was in the Iranian squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, but spent most of his international career in the shadow of Iran’s undisputed number one goalie in the last years, Alireza Beiranvand.
