This sordid, petty, and pointless punishment of the Iranian team, coming at the same time as the US forks over buckets of money to the Iranian leadership, is such a perfect little microcosm of the Trump regime.
Andrew Bloomberg
Exclusive: Iran were hustled out of the United States so quickly that the team’s players had to be iced and bandaged on the plane back to their base in Mexico.
A team medic recounts details of a chaotic, pressurised 48 hours Iran endured at the World Cup.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/w...
