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Iran’s Press TV reports:

Iranian swimmer, Mohammad Bidarian, has refused to compete with his Israeli rival in the 100-meter freestyle event in Croatia…. Despite the fact that he had a chance to get an Olympic berth for his country, the 19-year-old Iranian national gave up the competition as he was grouped with an Israeli swimmer on Thursday evening.

I’m not one to be giving advice to the Iranians, but why did Mr. Bidarian give up a chance to BEAT an Israeli? Wouldn’t that have been a propaganda coup, as opposed to appearing too scared to share the same water?

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