Habib Khabiri (15 August 1954–21 June 1984) was a footballer and captain of the national football team. He was arrested for membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization in 1983. He was subsequently tortured and executed by shooting the following year. His brother, Mohammad, was also a Persian international and vice president of the Football Federation of the Islamic Republic.
National soccer team defeated its Iraqi competitor on June 15, making happy millions of Persians. To gain a reputation, notorious Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, who recently won the boycotted Presidential election, congratulated the national team on its victory. However, the people of Homeland have yet to forget that Raisi, as the then-Deputy Prosecutor of Capital, had a crucial role in executing their Captain in 1984.
