Samira Moyadin

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The Totally Football Show with James Richardson · The World Cup is finally here! · 11 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, I think, you know, Iran has already been set up to fail.

Not many teams are having to get on and off a plane on the day that they are supposed to play.

I don't know about you, but going up and down takes a lot out of me.

So I can only imagine what it's doing to them every time they have to play a game.

So I think in that respect, they're already set up.

And then we found out, I think it was yesterday, that the tickets that were allotted to Iran's fans are no longer being honoured.

So any fans who, I think it's 8% or something under FIFA's rules, that 8% of home countries gets tickets given to them, and those tickets were taken away from Iran.

So, you know, there's a lot of pressure on these gentlemen.

I don't envy them right now, honestly.

For these guys, this isn't just a game.

The government itself, Iran, is very much politicizing everything.

I think it would be very hard for them to focus.

And then also FIFA has brought in this ban on the pre-1979 revolution flag.

And so you have this diaspora of Iranians who are mobilizing against this team because they don't like the government in Iran.

So they're dealing with a lot.

I mean, that's a good question.

One of the reasons for that is also that the IRGC, which is a portion of Iran's army, Iran has conscription, like you have to go and do your one year to two years in the army.

So a lot of these young men get swept up in that.

And since the U.S.

declared the IRGC a terrorist entity,

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