3/21/2024 0 Comments Iran Proud Home IranProudnet![]() ![]() The mass media gave extensive coverage to the 12 medalists and invited them for interviews on different radio, TV stations and newspapers. "Our responsibility is to categorically support our athletes and promote and talk about their successes in the mass media… of course we can not surpass a country like China which is a sports stronghold, but we can at least outperform weaker countries which usually grab numerous medals in the Olympic Games and make their people feel honored," he added.įollowing the conclusion of the games and once the Iranian delegation returned from London, the society was tremendously filled with joy and a communal feeling of delight. The country that performs in the games better can surely promote its culture more effectively and gain international prestige and credibility," he wrote. More than 10 thousand athletes from different countries take part and the whole world is paying attention to the event. "Olympic is a platform and a free tribune for introducing Iranian culture. The 22-year-old blogger Mohammad Hossein Nikzad wrote a post on his weblog Aghalliyat (the minority) before the games started and called Olympics a precious opportunity for "cultural diplomacy." If they had the choice, they would even bar the Iranian athletes from international sports events, but Iranians' glorious success in Olympics really disappointed them," she added. Their sole objective is to bring Iran to isolation. ![]() They already succeeded in dissuading Ban Ki Moon from attending. and Israeli politicians are going through fire and water to convince the world leaders to boycott the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran. If you look at the Olympics medal table, you will find out that we stand above many prosperous and economically progressive nations such as Spain, Brazil, South Africa, Denmark, Turkey, Switzerland and Canada." The Iranian sportsmen showed a fantastic performance. Zahra Kazemi Aliabad, a postgraduate student of English literature and a freelance journalist believes that the Iranian athletes performed in the 2012 Olympics brilliantly and brought glory and credit to the country: "I'm really proud that I'm an Iranian citizen. In the time that the Western diplomats avoid hosting their Iranian counterparts and shun them in different meetings and spare no efforts to make sure that Iran is an isolated nation, they're the athletes who bear the burden of promoting the name of their country and making their people proud and cheerful. Iranian delegation to the 2012 Olympics snatched 12 medals, including 4 golds, in weightlifting, wrestling, taekwondo and athletics and came 17th in the medal table among some 204 participating nations, recording Iran's best all-time performance in the Olympic Games.įor Iranians, every medal in such an important and defining event like Olympics means a hoisting of the country's flag before the eyes of millions of international viewers and most importantly, every gold medal means that the people around the world will respectfully listen to your national anthem. Congress to adopt more backbreaking economic sanctions on Iran and further isolate it over its nuclear program, the successful and unprecedented performance of Iranian athletes in London effectively appeased the country's innumerable excruciating wounds. While Israel, Iran's traditional arch foe, has been intensively lobbying to convince the U.S. This year's games came on the heels of a set of biting sanctions by the United States and European Union against Iran's banking, insurance, transportation and oil sector which have dramatically crippled Iran's economy and severely affected the innocent civilians. Iran Is Not Isolated: When The Olympics Make Iranians Proudįor the Iranian people, the 2012 Olympic Games in London which wrapped up earlier on August 12 was thoroughly different from the previous editions of the summer Olympics. ![]()
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