Proud of our boys who secured our first point--hopefully the first of many more to come. #WorldCup2014 #TeamMelli pic.twitter.com/9pzyT1Dr3f
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) June 16, 2014
Iranian President Tweets World Cup Chillout Pic -- The Guardian
Rare glimpse of an off-duty Hassan Rouhani cheering on his team against Nigeria, in a tracksuit with a cup of tea.
It's 11.30pm Tehran time and Hassan Rouhani is relaxing at home, watching the World Cup match between Iran and Nigeria.
His usual dark clerical robe (aba) is discarded, his white turban (ammameh) put aside, he sits in a tight-fitting Iranian team shirt (unbuttoned), bare arms on show, and tracksuit pants on his sofa watching a widescreen TV.
There's no bottle of beer, but a cup of Persian tea and a plate of fruit in front of him. It's clearly carefully posed – too good to be an spontaneous picture – but still, quite remarkable for a 65-year-old Iranian cleric.
"Proud of our boys who secured our first point – hopefully the first of many more to come," the president tweeted, referring to the goalless draw in Curitiba, along with the photo – retweeted at least 3,000 times. Rouhani has 213,000 Twitter followers.
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My Comment: No beer, pizza, snacks, having friends over to watch the game .... talk about a depressing tweet.
4 comments:
Thanks for listing editor. I thought the pic speaked volumes of wear Iran's democracy or ideology might....I stress again might be going.
The picture. Nothing on the walls except by the door (window) behind his head. The table seems too big for the couch and where it is. Nothing on the plate but the utensil. The one visible cable (power cord) runs awkwardly off camera to the right. Rouhani is all the way at the end of the couch not comfortably in front of the snacks. Why the tissues? When you set a scene everything usually is there for a reason. Are they expecting tears?
I could really take this down low with the tissues, but I won't - the innuendo is enough :)
You are bad Mattathias.
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