Obedient and stupid’: Iran blasts Australia as three soccer players reverse asylum claim
Iran has lashed out at Australia, branding our nation “obedient and stupid” following a huge update in the Iranian soccer team saga.
Iran has slammed Australia as an “obedient and stupid presence in Trump’s playground” after three more soccer team members reversed their asylum claims and opted to return home to the war zone.
Iran is claiming a propaganda victory after three more members of the country’s women’s national football delegation backflipped on a decision to seek asylum.
Iranian outlets aligned with the regime say two more players and a support staff member — Mona Hamoudi, Zahra Sarbali, and Zahra Meshkinkar — opted to return home overnight.
In a post published by the Tasnim News Agency, a media organisation closely aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian officials framed the decision as a patriotic rejection of Western influence.
The statement said in full:
“The disgraceful failure of the American-Australian project and another failure for Trump,” the statement said.
“Mona Hamoudi, Zahra Sarbali and Zahra Meshkinkar, two players and a member of the technical staff of the national women’s football team, have withdrawn their asylum application in Australia and are currently leaving for Malaysia and returning to the warm embrace of their family and homeland.
“This is while previously, Mohaddeseh Zolfi, another player of our country’s national women’s football team, with her heart for the homeland and the Iranian flag, rejected the offer to stay in Australia and decided to return to Iran.
"The national spirit and patriotism of the Iranian women’s national football team girls defeated the enemy’s plans against this team, which had been widely reflected in the hostile media with numerous projections.”
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