Alexander Abnos

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

One would think it would be very important.

But, you know, if that was truly the case, I think Iran would have been out of the tournament a long time ago.

I think

is in the best interest of a lot of different stakeholders for them to take place and for the tournament to go on uninterrupted.

And I think that them being withdrawn from the tournament or kicked out of the tournament or however it happens would just come with a lot of questions and a lot of talking points, a lot of logistical issues that I don't think, frankly, a lot of people want to deal with.

Personally,

I want to see Iran play at this World Cup.

I think that they're just a fantastic story and are always a fantastic story because despite all of the sanctions that have been levied on them over so many years and despite their kind of pariah status, sometimes deservedly so among the international community, their soccer team has continued to be amazing and they're consistently one of the best in Asia.

They've earned their spot in this World Cup on the backs of their play on the field.

So I would kind of prefer they just sort of are allowed to see that till,

its conclusion, whenever that may be.

It's really interesting because I think the anthem point at least is 100% directed mostly at the fans of them that they will be playing in front of because Los Angeles has...

the biggest Iranian diaspora population in the United States, many of whom I would say the vast, vast, vast majority are no fans of the regime that is currently in place.

So if anybody's going to be booing or whistling or whatever during the Iranian national anthem, I would think it's going to be a lot of Iranian fans in Los Angeles.

How FIFA plans to control that?

I don't know how you do that.

I know that at least with displays of political signage and shirts that are anti-regime, which I know is also on that list of demands, they do have a measure of control over that in the sense that they can see

fans as they're coming in and pat them down and make sure they're not bringing in anything.

But that's also nothing new because they did that in Qatar as well, because those games took place right in the middle of the Masaimini protests.

There were lots of people that were entering in that first group game against England wearing Woman Life Freedom shirts.

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