🔻A sports website reported that Yaser Asani, the Albanian player of Esteghlal, was present online on Tuesday morning in a meeting of the Disciplinary Committee of the Football Federation and explained his dispute with Alireza Ilderom, the assistant referee of the Esteghlal and Esteghlal Khuzestan match.

🔹In the closing moments of this match from the twelfth week of the Persian Gulf Pro League, after a verbal altercation with the assistant referee, Asani received his second yellow card and was sent off.

🔹Esteghlal Club claims that Ilderom was the main cause of the tension at the end of the match, after insulting Asani’s family. In contrast, the officiating team has rejected any abuse directed at Esteghlal player.

🔹According to this report, Asani’s lawyer apparently presented in the Disciplinary Committee meeting a video file related to the alleged abuse by the assistant referee; a document which, as written by this outlet, left the judges handling the case astonished.

🔹The meeting was held virtually due to Asani being in Istanbul, and the Esteghlal player answered questions from the members of the Disciplinary Committee.

🔹Esteghlal’s training sessions have been temporarily suspended and are expected to resume starting Thursday. Asani, Jalaluddin Masharipov, and Rustam Ashurmatoff are the foreign players of Esteghlal who have left Iran.