Tehran, YJC. Maestro Mashayekhi will act as Iran’s representative of peace and friendship to meet Lionel Messi following improper comments addressed at the Argentinean legend.
Senior theater and cinema actor Jamshid Mashayekhi says he
has been asked by Iranian authorities to meet the Argentitean soccer player
Lionel Messi following bad-mannered comments on Messi’s Facebook wall by some Iranian
users.
Mashayekhi said that the trip was suggested to
him by the Esteghlal F.C. CEO Ali Fathollahzadeh last week.
"The trip has been offered to me and I accepted it with
pleasure, but the grounds have to be laid in order for the objective to be
gained,” he asserted.
He added that if able to visit Messi "I will tell him that with
what some people have done a whole nation’s dignity is attacked and in fact Iranians
are insulted.”
Following the World Cup draw where Iran and Argentina were
assigned to the same group, a barrage of indecent comments was directed at
Messi’s page on Facebook.