World Cup 2022: A brief history of US-Iran relations

Posted 2022-11-29, Al Jazeera Headlines

Washington, DC – An Arabic saying goes,

"Politics has never touched anything that it did not spoil."
But it has been nearly impossible to keep politics out of football ahead of a critical showdown between Iran and the United States at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday. With qualification to the knockout... read full story

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