The problem with finding out that you've been fed Israeli propaganda your whole life isn't just that Israel took advantage of us, it's the realization that everyone in power, in media and government, have been lying to us all along. And that they betrayed us.
@BBCNews “unluckiest” is a cute way to describe the systematic & aggressive targeting that the team faced from corrupt FIFA, the US regime and its regime media
The United States did everything it could to make sure Iran was eliminated from the World Cup.
By making them base themselves in Mexico and only allowing them to travel into the US on the day of the match, they ensured the Iranians could not prepare properly for matches and were at a disadvantage compared to their opponents.
They even had to leave the United States directly after the match!
Despite this, Iran acquitted themselves very well and missed out on qualification by a whisker.
I'm sure if the World Cup had been held in Iran the US side would have been treated as honoured guests, despite the behaviour of their rogue government.
But I guess that's the difference between a shameless, lowlife nation and one with manners.
Iran came to this World Cup with both the US and FIFA against them. Harassed before kickoff. Exhausted by the system. Robbed by the whistle. 2 goals taken away. 3 matches without a loss. Yet, they go home. That's not defeat — that's injustice. 🇮🇷😔
Think about what it means to order the killing of your own soldiers in order to prevent them from becoming part of a prisoner exchange.
It means that Israeli officials consider it a higher priority to keep detaining Palestinian men, women, and children without charge than to release some in exchange for those soldiers.
That logic is so obviously inhumane that Israel officially ended the Hannibal Directive policy on paper, yet obviously kept it in practice, because we now have many different reports of it being implemented on October 7. And we also know that the bombing campaign was organized through 2023 and 2024 in a way that many Israeli officials understood to be highly likely to kill captives Israelis in Gaza, as +972 has exposed.