Video of Iranians celebrating New Zealand’s goal against Iran might confuse people.
We don’t hate our team. We used to love it deeply.
But the Islamic Regime has slowly cleansed it: imprisoned, killed, or “reeducated” the players who stood with the Iranian people. What’s left is no longer our national team — it’s become a propaganda tool for the regime.
Cheering for it now feels like cheering for the Islamic Republic. That’s why many of us can’t do it anymore. This pain didn’t happen overnight. It was a long, heartbreaking process of losing our team.
A group of Iranian football fans at the World Cup brought different parts of Iran’s flag into the stadium and sewed them together during the game.
FIFA has unjustly banned Iran’s 500+ years old flag, but Iranians keep finding creative ways to display their flag 🇮🇷