Their fate had already been decided before the last match

L’Iran deleted by world Cup In Qatar they see themselves winning in their group United StateAnd the He emerged victorious in the direct confrontation on the final day. A draw would have been enough for Queiroz’s men to qualify for the last 16 as runners-up to England, but a 1-0 loss thanks to a Pulisic goal ruled them through to the last 16. Say goodbye to heroism and go home.

The tears of Iranian soccer players at the final whistle against the Americans say more than any words: more than the sporting score of elimination, In that no-holds-barred crying that vents days of intense stress and stress, there is a realization of what awaits them when they return home.. A cruel fate they already had a mark on and which was set even before the game against the USA: going forward with the World Cup would have been – more than a lifeline – a way of postponing the inevitable.

The emotional breakdown of the Iranian players at the end of the match against the United States: the ball fades into the background

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The global insubordination of not singing the national anthem in the first match against England is very dangerous in the eyes of the Ayatollah regime.. That strong gesture of solidarity with the protests What has been fueling Iran for weeks and has been bloodily suppressed – after the murder of the young woman Mohseh Amiri last September by the police for the sole reason of “incorrectly wearing the Islamic headscarf” – has not been treated before. Subsequent conversion of Iranian footballers with Wales and the United States. In those circumstances they whispered the anthem barely moving their mouths and at that moment everyone understood what had happened: after the match against England the team was called up Meeting with members of the Iranian Revolutionary GuardPresent in Qatar to monitor the national team and suppress any acts of disobedience.

“If you do not change your position with Wales and the United States, we will use violence and torture against your family membersThis was the extortion of the agents of the Order, a ‘suggestion’ that the players received, but it wasn’t enough to save them from the retaliation that awaited them back home.. Mike Baker, a former CIA covert operations officer, told the New York Post that the team is in “intolerable situation“.”We have seen that the Iranian regime has shown itself to be brutal and there is no reason to believe that it will suddenly become rational.“, he added.

Iran’s players devastated after a match against the United States

Kenneth R. Timmerman, an author and expert on Iran, told the newspaper that The fate of the Iranian players was already decided before the match against America.”Because they have already sinnedNot to sing the national anthem. “I will be afraid of arrest – He said – Even if they win, they will be arrested, severely beaten, and warned: Never do it againIn any case, even someone who knows the Iranian reality as well as he does Andrea Stramaccionewho coached Esteghlal in Tehran in 2019, revealed the dramatic reality experienced by the players of the Iranian national team: “Someone told me there were repercussions for not singing the anthem in the opening match against England: “We sang it in the second game and they said we didn’t do enough.”“.

With all this background agonizingly unraveling behind the sporting issue, The painful embrace with which American Anthony Robinson hugged and cried Iranian soccer player, Ramin Rezaian, takes on a completely different meaning.After the final whistle, which the two teams fought last Tuesday.

In this human abandonment into the arms of an adversary who was at that moment the closest thing to a friend, It contains all the meanings of the Iran World Cup: it could not be football, but a page of history in the making, at a very, very dear price.It is what the Iranian people are pushing and these young people do not want to escape from, not even in the face of a horrific future.