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Iran’s national soccer team is dealing with unnecessary hardship during the World Cup thanks to the Trump administration, with acquiescence from FIFA, international soccer’s governing body.The team was forced to leave the U.S. immediately after its World Cup match with New Zealand Monday night in Los Angeles, which ended in a hard-fought 2–2 draw, and head back to their Tijuana, Mexico, base camp.“After the game today they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately,’” coach Amir Ghalenoi told the press after the match. “Whereas today it’s very important for us to have recovery.“We’ve been asked to get on a plane and return to our camp in Tijuana, and we are really troubled by that. They are forcing us to go back early. They are making the situation more and more difficult, more hurdles, but we’re not going to let that stop us from doing our best.”Iran wasn’t even supposed to have its tournament base camp in Mexico. They were forced to abandon their original plans for a base camp in Tucson, Arizona, thanks to the Trump administration, which isn’t letting them stay overnight in the U.S. despite their group stage games taking place in Los Angeles and Seattle. Their fan base is also being punished: Iran’s entire ticket allocation was taken away last week, although it’s not clear if that was a U.S. or FIFA decision.Before their match, the team had to go through five hours of travel and security checks on Sunday, despite the distance between Tijuana and Los Angeles only being 140 miles. “We don’t know why they’re returning us, to be honest. I think it’s very strange. It seems like others are doing the planning for us.… We were supposed to arrive two nights before the game, but they didn’t permit [it],” Ghalenoi said. “We were supposed to stay here tonight to recover and return tomorrow lunchtime.“I think our team is the most oppressed one in the whole World Cup. Our federation isn’t here, our media isn’t here, our management isn’t here.”The U.S. government initially denied visas to 15 of the Iranian team’s support staff, later reducing that number to 11 after some visas were approved. Those excluded from the U.S. include both of the team’s media officers, analysts, and Iranian Football Federation President Mehdi Taj. Inexplicably, winger Mehdi Torabi’s visa has also expired, as he was only granted a single entry visa to the U.S., Iranian state media reported. The Iranian federation is scrambling to get Torabi a new one that lets him take part in the remaining matches.“I think it’s not good for the football,” team captain Mehdi Taremi said of the team’s situation. “In [the] World Cup, you have to prepare good for the next game, which is a lot of stress for the players and the staff and everyone. But we don’t have that support, and I think FIFA have to help us more than this. Let’s see what’s going to happen in the future.” 🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING — World Cup “Disaster”Mohammad Mohebi and Mehri Taremi Say:“Not to Make Excuses but This Is Not a Fair Competition.”Iranian Players argued they should arrive 2 days before matches instead of traveling, training, and playing while exhausted by 5 hours in… pic.twitter.com/Z0ViTFEoRO— Pamphlets (@PamphletsY) June 16, 2026
President Donald Trump has put another Democrat in his sights by threatening legal action over political differences — and this time, his arguments are particularly ridiculous.“Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and made clear that he was unimpressed,” wrote MS NOW political analyst Steve Benen on Tuesday. “Indeed, the Rhode Island senator made clear that the U.S.’ interests were far better served by the Obama-era Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], which Donald Trump abandoned in 2017.” Reed specifically pointed out that President Barack Obama’s plan forced Iran to have so little uranium that it would take them 12 months to assemble one, whereas they will only need one week under Trump’s deal.“We are negotiating against a country which its leadership has been eliminated. Now we have even more fanatical leadership who has much more invested and much more to leverage their position,” Reed continued. “Abandoning the JCPOA was a bad mistake by the president.”Trump replied to Reed by calling for his impeachment, arguing that the “Dumocrat” had “lied when stating the the [sic] Deal we just made is not as good as the Obama disaster known as the JCPOA. Reed is either an outright fraud, or incompetent.” After describing Obama as “Obuma,” Trump responded, “Impeach Jack Reed!”As Benen pointed out, Trump’s missive against Reed is ridiculous for three reasons.“First, the idea that a U.S. official should be impeached for arguing one policy is preferable to another policy is ridiculous, even by 2026 standards,” Benen wrote. “Second, Trump keeps calling for members of Congress to be impeached despite the inconvenient fact that, at least in this country, members of Congress cannot be impeached.” This is particularly striking because Trump has been president for six years and has had abundant time to understand these political rules.“But perhaps most important is why the president responded so furiously to Reed’s comments in the first place,” Bene concluded. “The senator was letting Fox News viewers in on a secret that Trump desperately wants to deny: The Obama-era deal with Iran was a generational success story, which Trump abandoned for reasons he has struggled to explain and which created the very problems Trump’s war set out to solve.”Trump has used his presidential powers to politically target a number of perceived Democratic opponents including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, California Sen. Adam Schiff, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and New York Attorney General Letitia James.Yet Trump’s targeting of Reed stands out for another reason: Even many conservatives have accused Trump of coming up with a bad Iran deal.“There’s no denying that Mr. Trump is retreating from his main goals as political pressure has built at home,” The Wall Street Journal wrote on Tuesday. “While he has attempted to portray the deal as “peace in our time,” most recognize it for what it is: “a strategic retreat short of achieving his war aims.” They added that he has essentially abandoned his objective of stopping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, ignores that Iran is still charging ships for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe and others within the Trump administration don’t think Iran is being serious about its promise not to develop or attain nuclear weapons, according to anonymous sources from Axios. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and Ratcliffe each voiced their doubts regarding Iran’s commitment to the memorandum of understanding announced on Sunday, as each detailed “intel” that led them to doubt Iran’s side of the MOU agreement. “The intelligence reflects that the Iranian intentions are not in line with their commitments under the deal,” one source told Axios.While the full text of the deal has yet to be released, it is understood that the MOU requires that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days and refuse to develop nuclear weapons, while the U.S. must end its blockade of Iranian ships in the strait and Israel must withdraw from Lebanon. It’s important to note that the strait was already open before the war, and this commitment to no nukes from Iran was already in the original deal from 2015—a deal that Trump canceled in 2018. It’s also not clear just how seriously Trump will take this “intel” from Rubio, Ratcliffe, and Hegseth, as his son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff are supportive of the MOU.