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Stunning Vid: Soccer Player Throws ‘Grenade’ Off Field Seconds Before It Explodes

Sep. 20, 2012 1:45pm Liz Klimas

Video footage showing players milling around a field during a club soccer match in Isfahan, Iran, captures several objects on the ground. Some of them appear to be trash or plastic bags. One of these objects though turns out to be an explosive.

The footage posted on YouTube shows a player picking up what is being described as a live “grenade” (although it doesn’t seem it is a grenade in the traditional sense of the word), seemingly not recognizing what it was, and throwing it casually off the field seconds before it went off.

Explosive Grenade Thrown Off Field During a Quarterfinals Soccer Match Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Club Teams

Picking up an object on the field. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

Tossing the object aside. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

Watch the scene:

Some of the players ran away from the explosion while another walked near the smoking area and seemed to throw up his hands in frustration.

(Image: YouTube screenshot)

The footage posted on YouTube by ThePrincessHira states:

During a local club match in Isfahan,Iran some spectators threw a hand grenade on field,a player found it and thought it was some other object and threw it on sidelines just in time,if he had done this a few seconds later his hand would have been blasted.

Business Insider reports that the match between Iran’s Sephan FC and Saudi Arabia’s al-Ahli SC was part of the quarterfinals for the Asian Championships League. It states that the incident occurred last night.

The motive behind the explosive being on the field is unclear. Ironically, The Metro points out that it “came shortly after the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency expressed concern that Iran had continued to defy directives over uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons development.”

Digital Journal makes note of a member on Reddit saying incidents such as these, although perhaps not commonplace, are not unheard of. The user pedroabr writes:

I was watching the match live … and I’m Iranian …. many years ago fans used this handmade grande to through it near to the field when 2 famous Iranian football club( Esteghlal _ Perspolise) were playing against each other. specially after scoring each goal …. there were tens of these grande used to be explode on those days … now a days police search every single person for many times before they get in … but still they manage to bring these handmade grande inside of stadium

The description of the video states that the game was called off after the incident and police are conducting an investigation.

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Comments (105)

cemerius
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:31pm
“grenade”? my backside!! more like a firecracker!! I bet they will blame it on the Jews?!?! 15 meters is the wounding area of a “grenade” 5 meters is the “killing radius”………Blaze you really need to either fire or hire a military advisor!! I guess they were all out of them when you raided the huffington post huh?

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- RANGER1965
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:35pm
  Agreed.
  
  That wasn’t a grenade It was a rather puny Prank or an IED that didn’t work. A grenade would have made a much bigger bang, and fragmentation would have turned a few of those guys into a bloody screaming mess.
  
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- Mr. Nutt
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:18pm
  You guys are totally correct but what bothers me most is he didn’t use his foot. Totally a penalty.
  
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- Sorocialism
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:41pm
  READ THE ARTICLE???
  
  When the article says– “The footage posted on YouTube shows a player picking up what is being described as a live “grenade” (although it doesn’t seem it is a grenade in the traditional sense of the word)”
  
  herpaderp
  
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- term limits for congress
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:15pm
  Iranian version of a drone attack.
  
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- Pontiac
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:24pm
  Looks like a tear gas round.
  
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- TheRooster
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:50pm
  That’s no frag
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:38pm
  Wonder if it was the Sunnis wanting to blow up the Shiites or the other way around? Definitely not a military grendade. More likely an Iranian IED (Impotent Explosive Device).
  
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- Clivestaples
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:07pm
  Wow Camerius. You are witty. You remind me of Greg Gutfeld.
  
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- stage9
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:31pm
  If that were a real grenade, all of those guys would be dead.
  
  Gotta love Iran!
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:12pm
  It was an M80 firecracker.
  
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- GSD_owner
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 4:02am
  50% at 5 Meters
  
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- MajorLeagueInfidel
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 7:43am
  clearly a chinese knock off nade, always inferior, but half the cost.
  
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- Scottscobig
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 10:00am
  Right. But we’d better send thousands of our guys over there to get wounded and die in defense of …um… whichever side our fearless leaders (Obama OR Romney) decide to defend. What? No Americans are under attack? The constitution is in no danger from this quarter? Who cares? Today’s M80 is tomorrow’s nuke, right? Actually declaring war via our congress as the constitution states is for sissies and nut burgers, right?
  
  You who vie for global gun (or nuclear weapon) control should be deprived of your guns here at home.
  
  We sissies and nut burgers will calmly prepare to vigorously defend any direct attack here on our homeland.
  
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- drattastic
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 12:07pm
  Who cares they are Iranians.
  
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- All_Out_of_Bubblegum
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:39pm
  I hate soccer. But if one team of muslims is trying to blow up another team of muslims…I’ll pull up a chair.
  
  Popcorn anyone?
  
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- CLEttinger
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 1:47pm
  gre·nade/grəˈnād/
  
  Noun:
  
  1.A small bomb thrown by hand or launched mechanically.
  
  When trying to correct someone, try looking up the definition. No one said FRAG-grenade.
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:55pm
  You guys are right…that device is no “grenade” in the classical meaning of the word, a frag as Ranger rightly points out would have shredded those players with lots of small hot bits o death while an HE device would have knocked them over, punctured ear drums and maybe caused internal injuries to the players closest to the blast. A stun “grenade” does not have that amount of how shall I put it, red and orange component to the explosion while a flash bang is all noise but again without the red orange burn. What this looks like is a IED using some kind of low yield or out of date cordite. The brown hue to the smoke gives it away somewhat. Cordite was used in the late 19th century all the way into Viet Nam….some WWII era munitions were used in the first Gulf War (the Iowa class battleships use bags of cordite as the propellant for it’s main gun batteries 16 inch shells). Anyway…that player is lucky he didn’t lose his hand or his life. Good thing no one was hurt.
  
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- AirborneVet
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 9:32pm
  That was not a grenade in the traditional sense of the word. It was more likely some type of homemade device. It could have been an old ChiCom grenade maybe but certainly not a modern grenade, if it were it would have taken out all the guys in the video.
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:27pm
I bet attendance would go up at MLS games if fans were promised there’d be explosions on the field.

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- blanco5
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Eh, still wouldn’t be interesting.
  
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historyguy48
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:17pm
Now that’s what I call taking your football seriously!

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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 5:57pm
  They should have put the explosive in the ball…….every goal an adventure.
  
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PHDillman
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:07pm
Just have to say, the flames look more like a petrol conflagation as opposed to an explosion. Hi Explosives don’t have roiling balls of flame. AND the smoke that bellows out from the center isn’t right. Smoke usually forms past the ends of the flames, not the source. I’m calling BS, its a smoke device that somebody “photoshopped” the flames to.

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- cemerius
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:32pm
  No worries they will just “blame the jews” anyways!
  
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- Sorocialism
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 6:45pm
  The smoke billowed to quickly and didn’t bloom as it would from a normal smoke device unless it was one that had a big percussive bang to it.
  
  Those players ran in fear, if it were just smoke most people would react by looking for the small fire in an attempt to put it out. The flash seemed accurate for the flash of a nice sized firework. This is real vid, no doubt.
  
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GrumpyCat
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:03pm
Radical terrorists are evil, they don’t care who they kill. They kill for fun. They kill for boredom. They kill for status among like thinkers. They like chaos.

Therefore terrorists are far game to swat like flies.

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- tommytruck
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:14pm
  As opposed to Regular Terrorists? o.O lol
  
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:00pm
It was probably thrown by a fan from the Saudi team in protest because Iran allows their women to beat up clerics.

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- scrudge
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:07pm
  Ah Yes….. toooooo bad it wasn’t a atomic bomb
  
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FightingBear
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:54pm
Something is not right about this video….when the player tosses it, something goes over the fence, but the explosion happens on this side of the fence. Watch the grey area above the explosion..you will see something that was tossed disappear behind the blue advertisment on the fence.

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- single stack
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:31pm
  I watched the video several times. He threw the grenade over the fence and it apparently exploded when it hit the ground and blew a hole through the bottom of the sign on the fence.
  
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- Wilbur D Pig
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:55am
  I agree, I call BS. Whatever dude found was thrown over the fence and the explosion was clealy not from that side (no smoke over there).
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:50pm
Offspring of Ishmael? Lot?
They are lost and are in need of prayer

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FreedomWitness
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:44pm
Allah hu ackBOOM!

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GoodStuff
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:40pm
Islam is so stupid.

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- OniKaze
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:23pm
  No…. Just the Muslims that follow it… Islam by itself if just harmless non-sense until someone follows it…
  
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MistaB
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:39pm
George Bush threw that grenade on the field after he watched a stupid video made by a muslim about Jesus!

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rsanchez1
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:32pm
Iranians are crazy people.

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- ENIGMA28724
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:44pm
  I wouldn’t limit that statement to just Iranians. Most of them in that region fit that descriptor. We can only hope the nuclear device they seem hell bound to build is as equally a dud.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:44pm
  It’s not the people, it’s the cult most of them worship.
  
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- OniKaze
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:26pm
  @Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  
  As much as I usually agree with you…. I have to add a caveat to your statement…
  
  When was the last time you saw a “sane” person in a cult???
  
  Last I checked, insanity is a prerequisite for joining a cult… I mean, Scientology and like wise religious cults are a perfect example… Not a sane person anywhere to be found….
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 11:37am
  Maybe, the Iranian-nuke will “go BOOOM!” a few yards after takeoff, the way their test-rockets did each time…. O O O P S ! :-)
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:30pm
  I think it’s time I bust out my vintage F_ _ _ Iran T shirt………in honor of Jimmy Carter II disasterous Admin. We’ve been Jimmied !
  
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RANGER1965
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:31pm
That wasn’t a standard grenade from any military, nor do I think it was a high explosive, unless it was just a few ounces.

A standard grenade is about a pound or pound n’ half of TNT. Wrapped in a body of steel designed to fragment into wicked slivers about the size of a fingernail. This steel shrapnel is whipped out at nightmarish velocity, and I can tell you for certain that some of those guys standing around would have looked like bloody shredded beef after the blast.

The explosion was also rather puny. I think it was some kind of improvised device, poorly made or a prank.

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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:36pm
  M67 uses a mixture of Comp B and TNT.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:24pm
Good thing they teach their soccer players to multi-task.

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gbfreak
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:10pm
I don’t think this was a pin granade. It exploded on impact. I think it failed to blow when it was thrown on the field initially.

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- mongastanman
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:15pm
  Ditto!
  
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:09pm
I wonder how many virgins a muslim get for his hand?

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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:43pm
  An excellent point from a brilliant mind……well thought out and important….I’m going with 3
  
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- Landon410
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:53pm
  right hand or left hand?
  
  makes a difference when you live in a place that you use your left hand to wipe your arse because you dont have t.p.
  
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- midcoastmainepatriot
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:11pm
  This is where the smart people hang out….
  
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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 6:41pm
  When he gets a look at them he’ll want his hand back.
  
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g56
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:08pm
Come on guys, fix the spelling in the title!

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Tri-ox
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:05pm
That certainly was a “PEACEFUL” little explosion!

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Owt_Raged
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:04pm
I watched it frame by frame over and over. I couldn’t see anything on the ground where he was reaching. When he stood up there wasn’t anything visible in his right hand. Then he throws with his left hand, supposedly an object that he picked up?

I’m sorry, I looked, he didn’t appear to pick anything up.

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- pap pap
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:10pm
  That’s the way I saw it also. Pretty weird but so is everything else that goes on in the middle east.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:52pm
  hmm. Good eye.
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:43pm
  Watch it again. He picks it up with his right hand, then passes it to his left hand, in front of his body, and then casually throws it to the side of the field.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:13pm
  There didn’t appear to be anything on the grass…nothing of the size of the black object he tossed…and the grass was very short..and there didn’t appear to be anything in his right hand when he came up…again..nothing the size of the black object he tossed. It looked like the guy that passed him could’ve handed it to him…who knows…strange.
  
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- Gazoiks
  Posted on September 21, 2012 at 7:43am
  The grass was pretty tall, if you look the shoes are half covered by it. The thing that is strange is that when he releases the object, first it looks as though its trajectory is going to land in front of the fence, but then his arm continues and the object reappears and passes over the fence. I think the poster Photoshopped in the first object to make sense of the location of the explosion, not realizing it happened just past the fence and blew through into the field. It was pretty loud because they all ducked, and ran as if on cue after the explosion, I think the poster added confusion by showing a false object.
  
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billrow
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:04pm
Was it a grande grenade?

It must be great to be an Iranian.

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lawrench
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:00pm
What is Sutnning? Come on man, even I know how to use spell check.

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- Mjjakub
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:08pm
  Seriously, poor spelling, especially in the headline, will ruin an otherwise good article.
  
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- Lilybean
  Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:30pm
  The spelling doesn’t bother me. Were human and we make mistakes. I’m sure they would have seen it.
  
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RedeyeBlind
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:59pm
can ya feel the love?

Peace and Love

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silentme63
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:56pm
was God looking out for this guy?

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piper60
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:51pm
Wow. I know some soccer fans are passionate, but really———–.

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hi
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:50pm
Geez!

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