The amount of grief nations like Iran are carrying while being told to just “play football” under awful conditions on US soil, after everything that country has done to their people, is obscene.
In Mexico Iran's soccer team was met with crowds asking for autographs, gifting flowers, and Mariachis in support.
In the U.S. they were just met by protests lead by Pahlavi monarchists calling them terrorists, wearing Charlie Kirk shirts, and waving israeli, and U.S. flags.
Being a journalist in Ecuador is so hard because no one’s gonna believe you if you tell them how THE DICTATORSHIP IS MAKING STUDENTS PRAY AND PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE FOR BLACKWATER MERCENARIES AND ERIK PRINCE HIMSELF 😭😭😭 If this was Iran, western media would have a fucking field day
Israel has attacked 17 hospitals in Lebanon since March, because nothings says "defending yourself" like blowing up a bunch of doctors and patients getting chemo.
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States, and citizens in many areas of the island have been without regular running water for a month, and are dependant on water trucks to deliver clean drinking water.
This is happens as the US gov't starves Cuba, another Caribbean island.
Watching Iran’s team score a goal after surviving war, sky-rocketing inflation, economic collapse, and having to travel hours from Tijuana before their game is truly making me tear up.
What a resilient team ❤️😭
The British oil company that became BP discovered Iran's oil. When Iranians realized they were being robbed, they nationalized it — so MI6 & CIA toppled their democracy in 1953, installing a dictatorship. Iranians rose up in 1979 & the West has never forgiven them for it.
My respect to Iran man 🇮🇷
Iran players haven't played club football since February, political tensions at home, uncertainty about participation but they showed up and player like true warriors 🫡👏🔥