There is an Iranian speaker here. You guys seem to know nothing about my country.
Government and regime are two different concepts here. You can easily criticize the government; it's okay, and even many people who support the regime do that! They criticize the government but say that our regime is perfect and every problem we have had is because of the president, who has been chosen by the people!
How is the president chosen? The regime accepts only a few trusted people as candidates, so there wouldn't be any difference which candidate becomes the president because they don't have real power and also they don't want to address the real problems. They are only puppets.
Mehdi Taremi is one of those who support the regime, and his father is also a big asskisser of them. You guys really think many Iranians, including me, are stupid to criticize this bastard? He has said things even on national TV that regime's supporters say!
During Iran's protests last year, none of the players supported the objections and the people! They claimed, 'We are not politicians and we only want to focus on football.' After this, many Iranians stopped supporting them when they saw these bastards had closed their eyes for their own people.
This is how they have deceive the world for years and people of the world think iran's president has power the same the us president.
If you like his football and his sport character i have nothing to say but please don't try to justify him in terms of politics.