You cannot whitewash conduct that violates FIFA regulations and breaches the United States’ host obligations merely by praising yourselves.
Why do you not say that visas were denied to a large portion of the managerial and executive staff, technical advisers, and others who are an integral part of any national football team?
You have now escalated the deliberate and discriminatory treatment against Iran’s national football team to its highest level.
By extending your whimsical hostilities against the Iranian nation into the realm of sport, the U.S. government in practice is depriving Iran’s national team of its right to play in the World Cup under normal conditions and without undue pressure and stress.
This represents the worst possible form of politically biased interference in sport.
FIFA must hold the US accountable for violations of its rules and for the discriminatory treatment of Iran's national football team.
Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.
Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.
X has now removed the blue check from Iran's MFA Spokesperson’s account—after stripping the Ministry and Minister's verified badges—despite our full Premium+ payments.
This arbitrary de-verification fits X’s pattern of selective censorship and American digital piracy, aimed at suppressing the truth about the U.S.’ illegal war against Iran.
They tried again and they failed again. No, I’m not talking about the decades of repeatedly failed genocidal attempts to wipe out the Palestinians, but rather the ludicrous and pathetic attempts by FSV Mainz 05 to yet again appeal against their loss of my case in the German courts only to lose again.
Today, the German courts dismissed the latest appeal from FSV Mainz 05 which affirms the earlier judgment ensuring justice was served with my resounding victory.
Time for the deluded decision makers at FSV Mainz 05 to give it a rest and pay up the remainder of my contract. Worthy causes supporting the children of Gaza await. That should give some solace to the executive team at FSV Mainz 05.
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Belgium’s MEP Marc Botenga:
“You claim to stand with the people of Iran while you offer European bases to US killing machines.
While you support Israel’s chemical warfare as they poison the air of Tehran with toxic fires and black rain, spreading cancers for decades.
From Iran, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and Iraq — your bombs never brought democracy and never will.
They bring chaos. Death. Destruction. And the unbearable silence of children who will never come home.”
Several countries are presently attempting to avert the eruption of all-out war in our region. None of them are European.
Europe is instead busy fanning the flames. After pursuing 'snapback' at the behest of the U.S., it is now making another major strategic mistake by designating our National Military as a supposed "terrorist organization".
Putting aside the blatant hypocrisy of its selective outrage—taking zero action in response to Israel's Genocide in Gaza and yet rushing to "defend human rights" in Iran—Europe's PR stunt mainly seeks to cloak that it is an actor in severe decline.
Moreover, as the continent is certain to be massively impacted by an all-out war in our region—including the knock-on effects of surging energy prices—the EU's current posture is deeply damaging to its own interests.
Europeans deserve better than what their governments have to offer.
How is it conceivable that thousands of patients are denied the right to travel abroad for medical treatment, while the occupation simultaneously prevents the entry of their medicines and necessary treatments? Israel allows only a handful of cases to leave, numbers so small they bear no relation to the scale of suffering.
Men are forbidden from traveling for treatment, and many have died, out of exhaustion, grief, pain, and untreated illness.
Women, too, are denied travel unless their condition is the result of the war, an injury from a missile or shrapnel the occupation rained down over their heads. As for cancer patients, kidney patients, and others suffering from serious and life-threatening illnesses, they are forbidden from leaving Gaza for treatment, and such treatment does not exist inside Gaza. Even medications that were available before the war have been prevented from entering for two years. What greater injustice can there be?
And the children,
The children die in staggering numbers, packed into overcrowded spaces, battling hunger, contaminated water, and toxic gases released from the missiles. Their bodies are soft, fragile, unable to withstand the brutality of life, and so they die, burying dreams that never had a chance. A small number of war-injured children are allowed to leave, while the rest, those with critical, chronic, or life-threatening diseases, are forbidden from traveling. What was their crime?
What is the Palestinian’s crime?
He dies as a fetus in his mother’s womb.
He dies the moment he is born.
He dies in his early years.
He dies and dies and dies again,
and rarely lives long enough to grow old.
And even when he does, he has already died thousands of times, out of heartbreak, out of loss, out of witnessing his family, his people, and his homeland suffer.
Infantino and Čeferin accused of aiding war crimes and crimes against humanity in a filing to the international Criminal Court (ICC). This is the first time leaders of sport federations are being accused of these crimes. #infantinoandčeferinforthehague
Another day, another hearing, another appeal but still the same old outcome; a loss for FSV Mainz 05.
Regular defeats on the football pitch clearly aren’t enough for the board of the club so they keep coming back for more losses in the German courts !
I am grateful to the German courts for serving justice and seeing through the baseless and nonsensical claims of the club.
Let me be clear, the statement from the serial losers FSV Mainz 05 following their latest defeat is as deluded as their entire dealings and proceedings against me. I have never had, nor will I ever have, any consensus with any person or organisation which seeks to silence those standing for justice and humanity. My values can never align with any organisation whose values and convictions are to blindly stand with those accused of flagrantly breaching International law and perpetrating genocide.
No one is above the law.
Let this latest victory send a loud and clear to message to the warmongers, their accomplices and the deluded board members of FSV Mainz 05; you cannot, and will not, silence the voices of the Palestinians and their advocates. Viva Palestina !!!
The smears won’t work this time. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.
Lisa Nandy weaponises antisemitism to shield Israeli apartheid. Keir Starmer and Labour ministers, like her, complicit in genocide belong in The Hague.
Just as we boycotted apartheid South Africa, we have a duty to boycott apartheid Israel — until Palestine is free.