Did Iran soccer union greets Israel for 2010 with happy new year greeting?”
The Iranian Football Association inadvertently sent a New Year’s greeting to its Israeli counterpart on Thursday. The greeting was sent by e-mail from Mohammed Ardebili, who heads the Iranian Football Association’s foreign relations department. Army Radio managed to get hold of Ardebili on the phone. “This is a greeting sent to the entire word,” he said. “Are you speaking from Israel? I can’t speak to you. This is a mistake, this is a mistake.” Israel Football Association spokesman Gil Lebanony told the radio station that although the IFA was surprised to receive the letter, they did not hesitate in sending a response. “Attorney Amir Navon, head of our legal department, actually received the mail,” he said. “He came into my office and asked me if it was a mistake. I said, ‘I don’t know, but let’s send a response’.” “So, we responded, ‘We thank you for you Happy New Year greeting and wish all of the good people in Iran a happy new year,’ and added a wink in the mail,” Lebanony said.
Iran’s president says President Barack Obama made a big mistake when he accused the country of hiding a newly revealed nuclear site that Iran claims it reported to the UN nuclear watchdog within the necessary timeframe. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments Saturday come just before the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, is scheduled to arrive in Iran to discuss the uranium enrichment facility near the holy city of Qom. ElBaradei recently said Tehran was “on the wrong side of the law” over its new plant. He said Iran should have revealed its plans as soon as it decided to build the facility – a position backed by the U.S. Advertisement Ahmadinejad said Iran revealed the facility to the IAEA on Sept. 21, four days before Obama denounced Tehran. The UN’s nuclear watchdog has confirmed that its director general will visit Iran this weekend. ElBaradei and the Iranians will discuss a broad range of issues, including a covertly built enrichment facility that it recen
