By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Germany's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday it had granted a visa for an Iranian vice president Mohammed Aliabadi to attend the soccer World Cup, which starts later this week.
Aliabadi, 50, is one of seven vice presidents and is the head of the state's physical education organization. He said that he was attending the World Cup independently to watch Iran play and was not representing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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