Iranian authorities rerouted a flight bound for Dubai on Monday and prevented the wife and daughter of former national soccer team captain Ali Daei — who has supported anti-government protests — from leaving the country, state media are reporting.
abc.net.au/news/iran-reroutes-plane-carrying-soccer-star-wife/101810078A flight that was bound for Dubai — carrying former national soccer team captain Ali Daei's wife and daughter — has been rerouted by Iranian authorities to prevent it from leaving the country, state media are reporting.Protests in Iran started earlier in the year, after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in detention
People from across Iran's social spectrum have joined one of the most sustained challenges to the country's ruling theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, relying heavily on social media platforms — which the government is trying to shut down — to organise and spread news of demonstrations. Meanwhile, Mr Daei's wife was banned from travelling abroad, Iran's judiciary said, after authorities ordered the Mahan Air plane she had been a passenger in to land on Iran's Kish Island in the Gulf.
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