FIFA’s Iran flag ban is an insult to America — and gift to the mullahs
Sport
FIFA is poised to prohibit the “Lion and Sun” flag — the historic pre-1979 flag of Iran — from World Cup stadiums in the US this summer, after the Islamic Republic’s football federation issued a list of 10 demands as the price of its team’s participation. One of those demands, from federation chief Mehdi Taj, was that “no flag other than the Islamic Republic’s flag ” be permitted in stadiums where Iran plays. FIFA’s answer wasn’t to send the regime packing. It was to point to its stadium code
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