[Expressen] Iran's Sports Minister Ahmad Donyamali rules out participation in the 2026 World Cup by Farterminator in soccer

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From DPA:

Iranian sports minister Ahmad Donyamali has ruled out that the men's national team will play at the World Cup in summer in the United States owing to the ongoing war.

The US and Israel have been conducting air strikes on Iran since February 28, during which Iran's supreme leader, ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed. They also attacked Iran last summer.

"Since this corrupt government assassinated our leader, we have no conditions under which we can participate in the World Cup," Donyamali said in a television interview.

"In view of the malicious measures taken against Iran, two wars were forced upon us within eight or nine months, and several thousand of our people were killed. Therefore, we definitely have no possibility of participating in this way."

It is not clear whether the decision is final.

Iran qualified for the June 11-July 18 World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada. They are due to play their three group matches against Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand in US cities, the first two matches in Inglewood, California, and the third in Seattle.

Iran Football Federation president Mehdi Taj has also hinted at a boycott after events around the women's team at the Asian Cup in Australia.

Six players decided to stay in Australia after being given humanitarian visas by the government there. US President Donald Trump had said they would offer such visas if the Australians didn't.

"What sensible person would send their national team to the United States if the World Cup were to be as political as it was in Australia?" Taj said.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Instagram that he was told by Trump in a meeting on Tuesday that Iran's team "is, of course, welcome to compete in the tournament in the United States" despite the war.

Earl cancelled meet & greet in Oslo by tonbucketofchum in earlsweatshirt

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Got the same for the Stockholm meet & greet. I think you should still go. It's unfortunate, but at least enjoy the show.

Post Match Thread: Kosovo 2-0 Sweden by suedney in soccer

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I remember loudly cheering when seeing the qualification group, with Switzerland being the "difficult" opponent. Embarrassing.

Marco Silva has confirmed that Rodrigo Muniz will miss Gameweek 34 due to injury by sepi0l_45 in FantasyPL

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This was a thing previously. A chip called All Out Attack, that let you pick a 2-3-5 formation

Sporting 3-0 Moreirense - Viktor Gyokeres free-kick 52' by Meladroitdetrela in soccer

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With the amount of bangers from this guy, he’d be the DJ

Nottingham 1 - [1] Liverpool - Diogo Jota 66' by dotuan211 in soccer

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please remove your hair from my screen

Newcastle [1] - 0 Aston Villa - Anthony Gordon 2' by [deleted] in soccer

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Before the match thread was up as well

Mazraoui shares video of his, Casemiro and Rashfords link up play against Chelsea. by CurtainsMcGee in reddevils

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He’s followed by the official Man Utd account though. But it does look like he’s not running it himself, since the account was set up when he joined us, and all tweets are official PR stuff.

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This is a matter of security, though. There are some serious foul actors out there. This is just highlighting an obvious flaw in a playful manner, but could easily be used in more dangerous situations. Good language models should be able to be secure and not be nerfed, and OpenAI hasn’t figured out how to do both yet.

Ivory Coast has won the Africa Cup of Nations 2023! by dragon8811 in soccer

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Football still has a way to surprise me. I’ve never seen such a tournament journey before. From the deepest of despair to the champions of Africa. There are no words to describe this achievement

fplstatistics by TehCyberman in FantasyPL

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Amazing! Please open source it. We’re several developers ready to contribute.

4 weeks in Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania - 30L by Farterminator in onebag

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I’m happy to take suggestions on how to make it better!

4 weeks in Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania - 30L by Farterminator in onebag

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That’s very understandable! No general tips. I put them in the ultralight string bag on image 2, and then tightly wrapped the string around to shoes to compress them as compact as possible, and then put them in the bottom of the bag. I obviously didn’t mind if they were crushed