‘Trump project fails’: Captain of Iranian women’s national football team chooses home over US-engineered asylum
The captain and top scorer of the Iranian women’s national football team has chosen to return home from Australia, despite US President Donald Trump’s pressure on Canberra to grant asylum to the members of the team.
On Sunday, Iran’s Ministry of Sports and Youths reported that Zahra Qanbari had rejected Canberra’s asylum offer granted under pressure from Trump, describing her decision as a “patriotic” one.
The ministry said Qanbari was about to depart Australia for Malaysia so she can return to her home country.
Earlier, five others who had left the Islamic Republic to partake in Asian games in Australia, including a staff member, had likewise chosen to head back, despite the offer.
These include national players Mohaddeseh Zolfi and Mona Hamoudi.
Trump had also claimed that the United States would grant the team asylum if Canberra refused to do so.
Trump’s provocations came amid the United States’ and the Israeli regime’s fresh imposed aggression against the Islamic Republic that has claimed the lives of at least 1,400 people, mostly ordinary civilians.
The aggression has been met with at least 54 waves of decisive and successful retaliatory strikes on the part of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) against sensitive and strategic American and Israeli targets throughout the region.
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