00:00Under the FIFA statutes, it's the independent decision of the Iranian football association
00:05to decide whether to participate in the world championships or not to do.
00:09It's not a political decision of the political leaders in Iran.
00:13So it's a decision of the association.
00:15And as far as I know, there is no clear decision of the Iranian football association not to
00:20participate.
00:21It might be and it seems realistic that they will withdraw.
00:26And there are some hints that they will.
00:28But by now, there is no formal decision of the Iranian football federation.
00:32The ones who are most punished by not participating are the players of the Iranian national team.
00:40And it's quite unfair to put that punishment on them.
00:43So that's a thing FIFA should think about, whether to have similar to the Olympic Games
00:49where you have the refugee team, to have a similar team.
00:53I don't know the specific conditions of that.
00:56And it will definitely cause difficulties in resolving.
00:59But having a team consisting of Iranian national football players, but not under the Iranian flag
01:06whatsoever, that is something FIFA should think about.
01:10I don't know.
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