The FIFA statement has nothing to do with American national security. This declaration is a sign of FIFA’s historical illiteracy and proof that FIFA is not neutral, but has instead embraced the official narrative of the Islamic Republic regime.

FIFA appeared indifferent to the clear message of the Iranian people. It refuses to see that the bond between the nation and the ruling establishment in Iran has been profoundly shattered and torn apart, and that an ocean of blood stands between the Iranian people and the murderous regime ruling Iran. The people of Iran have been massacred and subjected to genocide again and again under this regime, beneath this irrelevant symbol placed upon the Islamic flag. A wounded nation now stands at a moment of rupture.

A patriotic nation will not bow before the symbols and emblems of Shiite clerical rule. The religion and ideology of this theocratic dictatorship may be 1,400 years old, but the history and civilization of Iran stretches back 7,000 years. In 1979, the Iranian nation became homeless in its own land and lost its national identity and pride. Faces and symbols came to dominate Iran that bore no trace of Iranian culture, civilization, or history. A feeling of exile, estrangement, homelessness, and dispossession penetrated the hearts and souls of Iranians. They were deprived not only of freedom, but also of their national dignity.

In 1979, a terrorist, repressive, occupying, and plundering cult shamelessly seized the title deed of Iran in its own name through a destructive ideology — Khomeinism. They were never........

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