Sports can occasionally double as diplomacy. Ping-Pong helped open relations with China, while judo has eased relations for one Iranian and his Israeli counterparts. Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei won a silver medal at the International Judo Federation’s Grand Slam Feb. 19 in Israel. He is not only the first Iranian to achieve victory in the country, but the first to […]

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