Voria Ghafouri’s reaction to the treatment and killing of protesters
Voria Ghafouri, the former captain of Esteghlal Tehran football team and the current player of Foolad Khuzestan team, used the hashtags Mahsa Amini, Hossein Ronaghi, and nationwide protests in a tweet regarding the widespread protests in various cities of Iran and the killing of some protesters by the armed forces of the Islamic Republic. He used a literary phrase, writing: ‘As Esmaeil says, when blood is shed, it begins to flow.’