Iran’s tentacles reach beyond regional political disputes:

[The Bosnian national football team effectively] went on strike in May [2008] after the coach Meho Kodro was dismissed. His crime was to protest against having to lead the side to Iran for what he saw as a meaningless end-of-season friendly; it subsequently emerged that of the $300,000 Iran paid Bosnia, only $120,000 found its way through the accounts of the Bosnian football federation (NSBiH).