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9 Mar 2026, 14:54

Trump's post:
Australia is making a terrible humanitarian mistake by forcing the Iranian women's national football team to return to Iran, where they are likely to be killed.
Don't do this, Mr. Prime Minister, grant them asylum. If you don't, the United States will accept them.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
President Donald J. Trump
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He then posted another post with the last image above (screenshot from this tweet) and wrote on it: Asylum!
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Previously:
Five players from the Iranian women's national football team have declared asylum in Australia after leaving their team's hotel in Gold Coast.

Earlier, "Iran Wire" had learned that more than six players from the Iranian women's national football team intended to declare asylum to the immigration office of this country due to repeated threats against the players and coaches of this team.

Iran Wire has also learned that since the evening of Sunday, March 17, 1404, and after the Iranian women's national team match against the Philippines, the atmosphere of the team's camp has become completely security-oriented, and security agents from the football federation who were sent with this team to Melbourne were monitoring the players' movements by standing at the entrance and exit doors of the hotel.

Iran Wire had learned that the security agents collected the players' passports on Sunday evening.

As of the writing of this news, "Fatemeh Pasandideh," "Zahra Ghanbari," "Zahra Sarbali," "Atifeh Ramazani Zadeh," and "Mona Hamoudi" are the players who have successfully left the national team's camp and introduced themselves to the Australian police to declare asylum. Informed sources have reported that some players from the women's national football team, who were afraid of returning to Iran, were unable to leave the hotel and seek asylum due to threats and the presence of security agents at the doors.

Iran Wire has learned that some of the Iranian national team women refrained from declaring asylum in Australia due to their family circumstances, while others accepted the risk of returning to Iran due to concerns about the seizure of their assets in Iran.

The players of the Iranian women's national football team refrained from singing the Islamic Republic anthem in their first match against South Korea in protest against the repression and killing of the people of Iran during the protests in January 1404. After that, media affiliated with the IRGC labeled these players as "traitors."

"Mohammad Reza Shahbazi," a presenter for the government-run IRIB, also reacted to this action by the Iranian national players on Thursday, March 14, calling them "dishonorable" and urging officials to treat them as "traitors in wartime" so that "others will also think twice."
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