{"id":20370,"date":"2015-01-23T23:45:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T07:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2015-01-24T06:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T14:31:38","slug":"iran-to-sue-iraqs-alaa-abdul-zahra-over-doping-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2015\/01\/23\/iran-to-sue-iraqs-alaa-abdul-zahra-over-doping-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to sue Iraq\u2019s Alaa Abdul-Zahra over doping allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 <strong>The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) will lodge an official complaint with Asian Football Confederation against Alaa Abdul-Zahra for what it said the Iraqi player has failed drug test.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mawtani.al-shorfa.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/11\/30\/101128-feature4photo-650_416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"238\" \/>Iran National Anti-Doping Agency deputy Ramin Tabatabaei said on Saturday that Abdul-Zahra failed drug test when he was in Iran\u2019s Tractor Sazi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI informed Mr. Sajjadi (vice-president of Professional and Athletic Sports Development) when we understood Team Melli would play Iraq in the quarter-final,\u201d Tabatabaei said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran Football Federation President Ali Kaffashian has been given all the documentation to share with AFC&#8217;s medical group and they will be asking the Iraqi side about the issue within the next 48 hours, Tabatabaei added.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Iranian football team manager Mehdi Mohammad Nabi has traveled from Canberra to Sydney on Saturday to deliver complaint to AFC officials.\u202c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasnim &#8211; TEHRAN,\u00a0 The Iranian Football Federation (IFF) will lodge an official complaint with Asian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news"],"views":5922,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}