In response to widespread demonstrations in the Islamic Republic brought sparked by the death of a woman while in custody of morality police, former FIFA President Sepp Blatter says Iran should be excluded from the World Cup, according to a Swiss newspaper’s Friday report.
“Iran should be excluded from the World Cup,” the Blick tabloid reported, saying Blatter at a talk at its publisher’s headquarters had demanded harsh consequences and that he would have removed Iran from competition had he still been in charge.
Apparently, the ongoing protests pose one of the boldest challenges to Iran’s clerical rulers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Reuters reports.
Since the death of Iranian Kurdish lady Mahsa Amini in September following her imprisonment for allegedly disobeying Iran’s dress code enforced on women, Iran has accused foreign enemies of inciting the unrest.
RN