Sepp Blatter, the former president of the world football organization FIFA, has said that Iran should be expelled from the World Cup after the death of a woman Mehsa Amini in police custody in Iran.
The Swiss newspaper Bilk quoted Sepp Blatter as saying that Iran should be excluded from the World Cup.
"It is incomprehensible that the current head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, has not taken a clear position on Iran," the newspaper quoted Sepp Blatter as saying.
Blatter, 86, sparked outrage this week by saying it was a mistake to award Qatar the rights to host the World Cup, which starts on November 20.
It should be noted that the protests in Iran are the biggest challenge for the Iranian rulers since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Iran has accused foreign enemies of fomenting unrest since the killing of Iranian Kurdish woman Mehsa Amini in September.
It should be noted that 22-year-old Mehsa Amini was arrested by Iranian police last week for not wearing the hijab properly, after which she reportedly went into a coma during detention, causing public unrest. And when the news of his death came out, people came to the streets against the government.
Iran is also facing severe pressure at the international level after the death of the woman, while in recent days, human rights organizations and people who are victims of the Iranian government's atrocities filed a case against President Ibrahim Raisi in New York. has been done.
It should be noted that the Ukrainian Football Federation has demanded that FIFA expel Iran from the World Cup starting this month in Qatar, accusing Iran of human rights violations and supplying weapons to the Russian army.
