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Burning thoughts: The importance of Iran in global football

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4.5740 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Brenda and Shireen talk about Iran potentially withdrawing from the men's World Cup, US imperialism, and the mess that could be FIFA 2026.


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0:00.0

Good morning, Flamethrowers.

0:15.0

I'm Shereign Ahmed, and I am joined by the incredible, absolutely amazing, phenomenal, Dr.

0:19.9

Brenda Elsie. Good morning, Brad. Good morning,

0:22.9

Shereen. It is early. It is. It is. However, we wanted to get on here. And we wanted to

0:31.3

essentially talk a little bit about the situation with the Men's World Cup and Adon, which I think

0:36.9

is, it's important considering we are,

0:39.7

we are several months away of a Men's World Cup, less than 100 days for sure. And Brenda, like,

0:48.0

I just, there's these weird social media worrying messages from Trump to leaders in Idon.

0:58.5

And now it looks as if, as of today, Saturday, March 14th, it looks like Ion's position

1:06.0

could be in jeopardy or they could withdraw voluntarily that has not been confirmed yet. But those are

1:13.4

sort of what's circling. First of all, I do want to say this and give a quick like update in

1:20.2

terms of what's happened. At this point, US and Israeli back strikes are raining down on Tehran.

1:27.3

Tehran is counterattacking.

1:29.6

So that's kind of what's going on there.

1:32.0

And so very recently, Donald Trump released a message on that fascist platform that's

1:39.5

trying to be Twitter.

1:41.1

Can't remember the name.

1:42.9

And he alluded to the fact. And he actually, he alluded to the fact, and elude, he actually

1:46.0

said, you know, Iron's team may not be safe, implying, obviously, that they would not be safe,

1:53.9

and later said he didn't care or not. Then he went on to his best friend and lackey, Gianni

1:59.7

Infantino, president of FIFA.

2:01.6

He assured him that, no, no, no, no, they'll be fine here.

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