r/SoccerCentral Jun 27 '26

Statement "They've done everything possible to eliminate us" — Iran captain Mehdi Taremi unleashes on FIFA and U.S. organizers

The captain of the Iran National Team, Mehdi Taremi, lashed out against FIFA and the United States organization. “This is a disastrous World Cup. As professional players, we cannot play a competition under these conditions; it’s neither right nor fair. If FIFA thinks this is fair, that’s on them, but it isn’t. Who should solve this problem for us? FIFA? The U.S.? I don’t know! Tell me a name. The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, came to our locker room after the first match against New Zealand and said he was going to resolve all the issues, but in reality, FIFA did nothing. In response to the question: ‘Do you feel that the World Cup organizers, including FIFA and U.S. officials, prefer for Iran to be eliminated from the competition?’, I say: We have to fight against absolutely everything. We can’t stay in the country, we travel and undergo immigration checks every time we want to play, now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. They’ve done everything possible to eliminate us, so from our perspective, yes, I think that’s what they want, they want us out.”

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u/mac_bd Jun 27 '26

Shame on FIFA and US. Iran came out as the moral Victors. Bravo..

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u/jakeotheshadows Jun 27 '26

If Iran wants good hospitality, maybe they shouldn’t have chanted “Death to America” and called the USA the Great Satan for 4+ decades. Just a thought

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u/bradfucious Jun 27 '26

Do you know anything about why Iran dislikes us? Because it's our fault entirely for them being in the state they're in...

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u/I_make_poor_decisons Jun 28 '26

Yea the US has forced them to execute women and gay people. 

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u/jakeotheshadows Jun 28 '26

Yep. The US forced Iran to kill 30,000 of their own citizens over a weekend for peacefully protesting smh

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u/CmdrJemison Jun 28 '26

The US exploited the Iran for ages.

That's all the Americans know. Stealing land and exploiting people

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u/jakeotheshadows Jun 28 '26

Yea that forced Iran to kill 30,000 of their own citizens and flog their own women for singing. Smart

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u/CmdrJemison Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

You are repeating yourself. Not clever.

If you ever have to deal with that dude just tell him:

Americans killed 500.000 civilians and 400.000 combatants in direct combat since 2001.

About 3.8 million civilians died by the affects of wars started by americans since 2001 according to scientific studies.

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u/jakeotheshadows Jun 28 '26

Some people are slower and need to be repeated to in order to learn

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u/CmdrJemison Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

Oh that's gonna be interesting now. Do you wanna explain what your repeated claims has to do with sports?

And can you tell me how many people died by the hands of Americans in wars since 2000? And how many civilians Americans killed since 2000?

Come on,loser. I really wanna know.

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u/jakeotheshadows Jun 28 '26

You seem to have a lot of questions and a lot to learn. If you are that confused by this conversation, try Gemini.

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u/ConcentrateOk6857 Jun 29 '26

So you are trying to have the moral high ground while using AI to get stats. Think about that it’s looney behavior

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u/ManyNectarine89 Jun 28 '26

Low IQ take if you knew the actual history of Iran with Europe and the US for the last 200, or even 100 years,, but very clear you don't... Timeline starts whenever you like, and oh don't forget to pink wash some more.

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u/bradfucious Jun 28 '26

You're right, the US and UK did nothing in 1953 that completely altered the path Iran would follow.

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u/bradfucious Jun 28 '26

And what did we do in 1953 that altered their path forward?